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Racial Profiling is contentious issue in US law enforcement policy. The

practice of using race as a part of profile when attempting to identify or curb criminal activity

Has been used in various ways, including pulling individuals at border crossings. Racial profiling

has been used to justify drugs and smugglers, terrorists and undocumented immigrants. Many

contend that racial profiling severely hampers the civil right while others believe it is necessary

police practice. Racial profiling has become a contentious issue law enforcement practices over

the last twenty years. An increasing number of reported instances in which law enforcement

personnel have been accused of targeting certain minority groups has cast a spotlight on racial

profiling, as well as increased tensions debate over the legitimacy of the practice for various

reasons [ institute on Race and justice 2008]

There is no single agreed upon definition of racial profiling. The definition of racial profiling.

The definition across the literature ranges from including race, ethnicity, or nationality as a

consideration when deciding to apply law enforcement procedures. A similar term is racially -

based policing, and the line between what communities find acceptable and unacceptable is

influenced by a wide range of factors Anderson and Callahan 2001. The public perception of the

acceptability of racial profiling varies under circumstances. For example, poll conducted in 1999

said 81 percent individuals reported that they disapproved of racial profiling when law

enforcement officials pulled over motorists solely based on their race ethnicity. On other pull

conducted.
 Racial and ethnic preferences are unjust — reason enough to abandon them.

They serve to perpetuate, rather than combat, racial stereotypes. They encourage gaming the

system (as when Elizabeth Warren claimed to be Native American).

They permit students from certain groups to coast in high school knowing they will get an

automatic golden ticket to college.They encourage intergroup resentment.

They result in what Stuart Taylor Jr. and Richard Sander have rightly called “mismatching”

students — so that all but the very top minority students wind up attending schools that are a

little likely than similarly qualified other students to start college, but less.

what's with conservatives using potential terrorist attacks to for their own terrible policy ideas?

There's something amusing going on here: since Obama is president, conservatives can't take

credit for successful arrests, and the success itself makes it harder for them to argue that Obama's

national security policies are putting Americans at risk.

There are constitutional arguments against stopping people based on the fact that they "look

Muslim," but there are also practical arguments--namely that terrorist organizations are quite

aware of the lure of racial bias as policy for some .

Constitutional safeguards against racial profiling exist, but have been largely drained of

substance by other legislation, notably a Supreme Court decision that enables the use of

traffic violations as a pretext to stop people for other reason.