Over the years, racial profiling has become a widely talked about subject. Racial profiling means the police use a person’s race as an important factor in their decisions to stop and question people. While this mostly happens with traffic stops, it can happen in other contexts as well. In a study done in the early 2000s, out of 1,087 police chiefs, they found that 60% of them believe that policing that was racially biased was not a problem in their jurisdiction and an additional to this, there was 29% that said it was only a minor problem (Fridell et all., 2001).
One problem that police have been accused of making “pretextual” stops against people who fit into a certain profile as drug traffickers, gang members, or other offenders. As a result,
One problem that police have been accused of making “pretextual” stops against people who fit into a certain profile as drug traffickers, gang members, or other offenders. As a result,