Racial Profiling

Racial profiling is the law enforcement practice of treating the race or ethnicity of a person as a factor in deciding whom to stop, question, search or investigate, rather than relying on individualized suspicion of wrongdoing. It became a central subject of civil rights litigation and criminological research in the United States following the 1968 Terry v. Ohio ruling, which permitted police stops based on reasonable suspicion, and it remains debated both as an empirical question of whether it improves detection and as a legal and ethical one of whether it violates equal protection. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/