What is racial profiling? Racial profiling is a practice by law enforcement and security agencies that encourages officers to stop, search and investigate people based on their race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. Although racial profiling is most commonly committed against ethnic minorities, many cases of racial profiling occur in reaction to specific crimes, making any racial or cultural group subject to more intense scrutiny by authorities. (ebscohost.com) This is what I think about racial profiling, it's like it happens when the police target someone for investigation based on that person's race, national origin, or ethnicity. Examples are the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic violations and the use of race to determine which motorists or pedestrians to look for contraband. Universally attested and loathed, racial profiling is a widespread policing tactic. Although blacks and foreigners experience different forms of racial profiling, they both share many similarities. The issue of racial profiling in America is of great importance to the future of American society. This fairly new problem, in terms of recognition is old in its own way. Racism and stereotypes are issues that date back many years. Racial profiling in America is an issue that must be addressed by government and society if we ever want America to truly be “The Land of the Free.” One of the main examples of racial profiling is called DWB (Driving While Black). This is suspicious. In many of the cases I have read it seems that the officers acted not with training but with suspicion and this caused the death of many innocent people. I think the final step is for law enforcement to gain the... center of the paper... officers, officer transfers, disciplinary actions against officers, and various civil and criminal claims against individual officers or the police department as a whole. Additionally, Pittsburgh's consent decree requires the city to develop a registration system that requires an officer, at each traffic stop, to record the officer's name and badge number, and the individual's race and gender stopped, whether the stop resulted in a search, what was found during the search and whether the person was arrested. This requirement closes a loophole that previously protected officers when making pretextual stops: In cases where officers resorted to minor traffic violations to stop vehicles that fit certain pretextual descriptions, they often issued warnings, which rarely involve holding warnings. registers.' (http://academic.udayton.edu/race/03justice/profiling02.htm)