grueling hours of this, the officers issued John Tolbert a warning for weaving and let them go. John Tolbert was quoted as saying, “If I was a white man with his family, and said I was going on vacation as I told the officer, they never would have searched the car for two hours and embarrass and humiliate me and my family. I felt like we were not citizens of the United States.” Although this is a disheartening story, I do believe and plan on proving that one does not have to be a racist to be guilty of racial profiling. One question to be asked is does racial profiling really exist, or is it just an exaggerated myth? Is the disproportionate involvement of minorities with the law enforcement a reflection of police racism or just the effect of disproportionate minority crime? There are two types of probabilities police use for probable cause, one is case probability and the other is class probability. Case probability deals with situations where for example a mugging victim tells the police the mugger was a young Asian man. In this case there is no point in wasting time looking at proportional numbers of whites, blacks, Hispanics and so on before they narrow in on Asian suspects. In this case, the police’s investigation would “profile” young Asian males only. The American Civil Liberties Union says this kind of profiling is acceptable; the problem arises with cases dealing with class probability. Here, before having evidence of a particular crime, police set out intending to investigate a high proportion of people of some particular race, ethnic group, age group, or so on. Their only justification is that by doing so, they increase their chances of discovering some crimes. This is the kind of racial profiling has been proven to exist. For example, in California a memo was found that told park rangers, in attempt to stop marijuana growing, to question all Hispanics whose cars were stopped regardless of whether marijuana was actually found in their vehicles. They were told to develop probable cause to stop them and at a minimum the park rangers were suppose to field interrogate all individuals in the car. This proves tha

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