Profiling, racial or otherwise, is a tool to be used by people in all walks of life to use for their own protection. How many times have you happened to drive through the tough part of a city and had an uneasy feeling of being there because of the appearance of the general public present in that area?
To do otherwise is stupidity. Law enforcement has to use a description of criminals including their appearance to do their job. If this is profiling, then we need more of it. If you are a minority such as I, you have your own race to blame for any undue harassment you may suffer because of their unlawful conduct. BTW, I am one of the oppressed white males that everybody enjoys kicking around in this country.
Even Jesse Jackson admitted he profiled, that even as a black man he was a little more nervous to see a group of black youths if he was in a certain area of town.