[Marie]

“Now if you knew your chances of being arrested for drug possession because of the color of your skin was far higher than people who didn’t have your color, would you carry drugs around? I sure as heck wouldn’t.”

But the profiling is still wrong... right? If both groups are equally guilty, then one is being wrongfully targeted... right?

[driftless2]

Technically yes. But "wrongfully targeted" is not necessarily the case. A bank has been reported robbed and the robbers speeding away in a particular kind of car. But two similar cars are reported as speeding away. One car has what looks like to an officer of the law to be driven by females, and one car driven by males. Who do the officers chase? Why, logic would assume males robbed the bank, because males are the culprit in over 90% of bank robberies. Is this unfairly targeting males? Of course not.

The facts of the matter are that black males commit far more violent crimes than any other group of Americans. Hispanics not as much as blacks, but appreciably more than white males. I personally don't favor arresting anybody for possession of drugs, but the reality is the stop and frisk law worked. Crime went down. I favor what works.