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Originally Posted by alansmithee
By that logic, death penalties/ Life without parole should be the penalty applied to all crimes, since differentiating between varying degrees of crime is not allowed.
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You misunderstood.
The principle that is being argued here is whether racially profiling is beneficial. People who agree with racial profiling claim that it is beneficial (it does more good than harm), people who disagree with racial profiling claim that it is not beneficial (it does more harm than good).
Therefore, if it is beneficial it should be applied to all crimes. The harm factor vs. the good factor would naturally scale with the penalty for the crime - murder still produces a stiffer penalty than theft, racial profiling simply results in more arrests (depending on your position: by virtue of the numbers game or by virtue of targetting a race that is somehow genetically prone to the crime).