What is Racial Profiling?
Racial profiling is the use of an individual's race or ethnicity as a key factor in deciding whether to engage in enforcement (e.g. stop and search or arrest). The practice is controversial and is illegal in many jurisdictions.
Racial profiling is a troubling national problem despite claims that the United States has entered a “post-racial era.” . Racial Profiling occurs every day, in cities and towns across the country, when law enforcement and private security target people of color often humiliating and frightening detentions, interrogations, and searches without evidence of criminal activity and based on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion. Racial profiling is evidently illegal, violating the U.S. Constitution’s core promises of equal protection under the law to all and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. Just as importantly, racial profiling is ineffective. It separates communities from law enforcement, hinders community policing efforts, and causes law enforcement to lose credibility and trust among the people they are sworn to protect and serve. We rely on the police to protect us from harm and promote fairness and justice in our communities. But racial profiling has led countless people to live in fear, casting entire communities as suspect simply because of what they look like, where they come from, or what religion they are involved.
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This data harvested in Illinois revealed that “black drivers are anywhere from 1.8 to 3.2 times more likely than white drivers to be consent-searched. Latino drivers ranged from 2.9 to 4 times more likely to be searched than their white counterparts.”
This video Shows how a police officer does nothing when "normal" People are arguing in the street, but when they return Arab looking and talking in an accent the policeman almost immediately stops them and looks for weapons. This shows haw the looks of a person can change how other people see them or in this case the police officer.