Racial profiling is a practice of using racial or ethnic characteristics (i.e. skin color) to decide who is suspicious enough to warrant law enforcement attention. (Harris, 2003

Therefore, from the ruling class's perspective, these groups must be constantly undermined, divided, intimidated, attacked, imprisoned, discredited, and ultimately kept in order with open force in the form of a lethal injection or a police bullet. Young people of color are thus made scapegoats for the problems created by the ruling class. Rape, gangs, drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, muggings, child abuse, unemployment-all these are ascribed to their personal moral flaws, which contributes to the social perception of criminality, which fuels the police tactic of profiling.

) Today, young men and women of color are targeted because the criminal justice system needs to keep a potentially volatile section of the working and oppressed classes under control. After the post-World War II economic boom, the ruling class cracked down on Labor

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President Clinton, African American, Black Codes, War II, Drugs Mainstream, racial profiling, Janet Reno, African Americans, Profiling Racial, Police-Community Relationships, police officers, President Reagan, black codes, ruling class, people color, law enforcement,