Racial profiling

[Kevin]

There are problems with it I think.

From an anti-terror standpoint, terrorist organizations have the ability to adapt. The next shoe bomber could be an 80 year old white woman.

From a street crime standpoint, it's so hard to decide what is racial profiling and what is not. I just leave it up to officers to find propable cause, and I'm happy.

Of course, I've never been pulled over for a DWB, I've had friends that have though, and subsequently have been jailed without cause (well, real cause, some officers are pretty creative).

I think the biggest problem facing our police departments around the country is the "blue line" where good cops tolerate antisocial, aggressive, dangerous behavior from others to the point of denying the behavior's existance, or outright defending them. The policing profession needs to be more involved in protecting and serving the public than eachother -- to me, if you face that, many problems like 'racial profiling' would evaporate.