attacks brought on many suspicions against those of Arab ethnicity. "According to a wide range of civil rights and human rights organizations, the expansion of racial profiling after the September 11th attacks appears to have contributed to a climate of discrimination that indirectly encourages hate crimes against certain minority groups and people who look like them by conveying the message that such discrimination is acceptable and helpful in fighting terrorism" (http://www.amnestyusa.org/discrimination/racial_profiling/fivefacts.html). In the fight on terrorism, racism remains a major element in the culture and practices of police departments.
             Many police authorities use racial profiling as a means to pick up anyone they suspect is carrying arms and/or drugs. "Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socio-economic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income predomina
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