Racial profiling, the police practice of stopping and searching of blacks because of their race, in the course of drug-interdiction efforts and combating crime, has become one of the most highly-charged racial issues in America. However, this issue that divides our nation along black and white lines, should not be an issue at all. Racial profiling is nothing more than a sensible police technique where police employ the laws of probability to make the best …
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…is necessary if communities insist that police rid the streets of drugs and crime. Bibliography Derbyshire, John. In Defense of Racial Profiling. National Review. New York. Feb. 19, 2001. Kemp, Jack. "Supreme Court Makes Racial Profiling the Law of the Land." May 1, 2001. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jackkemp/jk20010501.shtml. Mac Donald, Heather. The Myth of Racial Profiling. City Journal, Spring 2001, Vol. 11, No. 2. "Articles on Racial Profiling." http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/race/profile/parts.htm. Dec. 10, 2001.