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    Question: Is racial profiling a legal way for a cop to stop a person on the road?

    Answer: Racial profiling is not a legal way for the police to single out a person to make a traffic stop. The 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution protects your rights to be free from unreasonable searches.

    What this means is that police must have a reasonable suspicion that a crime is occurring before they can stop you and investigate whether you have committed a crime. Reasonable suspicion is a common-sense judgment on the part of the police officer that they feel a crime is being committed. There must be something that the officer can point to, in his or her experience, that would lead them to think criminal activity is going on.

    The race of a person alone is never enough to justify a traffic stop or an arrest.
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    On 04/24/02
    luis from AZ said:
    its wrong
    On 09/19/01
    S A Johnson from IN said:
    In spite of the legalities, law enforcement officers rely on a "history" of illegal behavior by some members of minority groups to arrive at the decision to pull a minority over. There is much truth in humor. Listen to the jokes in movies or any comedy routine by an African-American comedian and you will hear them make light of the treatment they receive at the hand of law enforcement officers, their supervisors, and any strangers they encounter. Considering recent tragic events in New York and Washington, I hope the people in this country come to realize that African-Americans are not the
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