Mikal Muharrar, of Extra! defines racial profiling as the discriminatory practice by police of treating blackness or brownness as an indication of possible criminality. Which in fact, has lately been the focus of frequent legal or legislative action, resulting in a significant amount of coverage in the mainstream news media. In contrast, the Daily Illini cites that racial profiling is generally thought of as the targeting of blacks more than whites in traffic stops or accusing blacks of crimes on the basis of race alone. The issue of racial profiling is more complicated than that conception; it can include people of many backgrounds in many different situations. But experts say the line between using race as a sole factor can cause confusion about the definition of racial profiling.

Taylor states, "in constitutional-law parlance, while racial profiling may be presumptively unconstitutional, that presumption is overcome in the case of airline passengers, because the government has a compelling interest in preventing mass-murder-suicide hijackings, and because close scrutiny of Arab-looking people is narrowly tailored to protect that interest. This has particularl took on racism of Arabs since the September eleventh tragedy.

In addition, many of the stories that have came up recently on the local news with policemen and encounters of beating, shooting, and arresting local citizens mainly consists of males, of African American and Mexican heritage. There is the incident with the boy shown on video being punched in the face by a police officer in California, while he was handcuffed. And another was of the man in Baytown who was killed by a police officer for an unknown reason. Thus, a more recent update is the Brazoria county judge who was using racial slurs.

To make this circle complete, many people face racial profiling on an everyday basis. Whether they’re black, blue, red, or yellow, walking, flying, driving, working, or shopping. As a witness, "I believe based on my research, that racial profiling may happen to every color of skin, but the main focus and stand by go predominately to those of African American and Mexican youth.

A 2000 General Accounting Office reports on the activities of the US Customs Service showed that black women who were US citizens were nine times more likely than white women who were US citizens to have their luggage x-rayed after being frisked or patted down. The

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