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Bookmark or Share- Racial Profiling vs. Criminal Profiling: The DifferenceRacial profiling has been declared unconstitutional, as it is a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment equal protection clause. However, criminal profiling is legal and often used by law enforcement to apprehend criminals.
- Racial Profiling: Past, Present, and Future? - American Bar AssociationFirst, no one could doubt that racial profiling—the targeting of African Americans and Latinos by police, using their racial or ethnic appearance as one factor among others in deciding who police should stop, question, search, or frisk—was real.
- Racial profiling - WikipediaRacial profiling or ethnic profiling is the selective enforcement or selective prosecution based on race or ethnicity, rather than individual suspicion or evidence. This practice involves discrimination against minority populations and often relies on negative stereotypes.
- Racial Profiling: Definition - American Civil Liberties Union"Racial Profiling" refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. Criminal profiling, generally, as practiced by police, is the reliance on a group of characteristics they believe to be associated with crime.
- Racial Profiling - American Civil Liberties UnionRacial profiling is patently 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.
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