Americans talk about how they are so happy to be here, so lucky to be in such a free country, but how free are we actually. Granted the police can protect us from the criminals of society but can they stop us, from us? We talk about the first amendment and how it is so great because we would hate to have our "given freedoms" taken away from us, but how much freedom do the people that get profiled actually receive? Deciding whom someone is just by the way they look, or dress, or to any effect deciding anything about anyone because of physical characteristics or beliefs is nothing less than ignorant. To be able to judge someone you have to know him/her first. Racial profiling occurs when people use race, religion, ethnicity or national origin in assumptions about someone without any real reason besides their "Racial Profile".
             " A Department of Justice Report on police contacts with the public concluded that in 1999, African Americans were 20 percent more likely than Whites to be stopped and 50 percent more likely to have experienced more than one stop. Police were more than twice as likely to search an African American or Hispanic driver than a White driver."
             -http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/racial_profiling/
             Racial Profiling is not always a bad thing, to look at someone and to say to yourself that hey he fits the description of a terrorist and I would want to watch myself around him is just watching out for yourself. And to say that you do not do that, well is false. When you see something you automatically try to put that person in a group, good guy, bad guy, whatever. But by grouping this person without knowing him, from first impression, is NOT racial profiling. Treating somebody different by religion, nationality, race or creed is racial profiling.
             "Our brains are not designed to make us racists," said senior author Leda Cosmides.
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