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An Inside Look Into Racial Profiling: Introduction

Police have considerable decision-making judgment in the performance of their jobs. The decision to interfere with the freedom of another person, even if momentarily, is an extremely serious one. People do not like to be stopped by police, it is a frightening and confusing experience that nobody wants to go through. Some people might even perceive police action discriminatory. Their view may be correct, only stopping people when there are legal reasons for doing so. According to Harris, “Racial profiling is an institutional practice - a tactic accepted and encouraged by police agencies as a legitimate effective crime-fighting tool. It is a method full of assumptions that have, for too long, gone untested, unexamined, and unchallenged. And when we do challenge it-push hard o...

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