re: Racial profiling

Our ancestors that survived to pass on their genes to us learned to generalize and stereotype because snap judgments were an aid to survival. If a certain community has a much higher crime rate, then you obviously are going to give them less of a benefit of the doubt than other communities. Profiling based on race, clothing, what have you still serves a vital purpose. People who say otherwise do not want negative consequences from their community's actions. The profiling has nothing to do with racism. It has everything to do with cause and effect.