Personally I fully expect to be racially profiled in some Detroit neighborhoods and I would welcome it as a common sense measure.
If you see a white guy in a rough black neighborhood, chances are the cracker is up to no good.
“If you see a white guy in a rough black neighborhood, chances are the cracker is up to no good.”
I was going to make the same point. If the police tried to harass me based on my race alone (white guy going into a rough black neighborhood), that wrong, but how often does that occur? More than likely, they’d simply start observing me more closely.
Wrong race in a black neighborhood would be just one reasonable suspicion, and experienced police are probably very, very good at detecting other suspicious traits, everything from my facial expressions, how I’m dressed, to what I’m driving. Nevertheless, they still require probable cause that I have done a crime.
All profiling does is help them better narrow their focus. One Hispanic male driving a nice car down the highway? Probably not worth further interest. A clearly overloaded van with a couple Hispanic males driving inland from the boarder? Maybe that needs a bit more scrutiny.
“Oh, no!” some would say. You aren’t supposed to notice the driver’s race! I think that’s ridiculous, because it flies in the face of reality. #1 How in the world can someone NOT notice race? #2 Why in the world is it unreasonable to at least note Hispanic race if one is trying to find illegal aliens near the border?