approached a older car driven by a young black man with wild hair and a lot of tattoos...would you just blithely approach the vehicle and assume the lad was on his way to choir practice?
Or would you be a little cautious, given what you see in front of you.
Yes it's profiling.
You may have to choose to be a racist and use your common sense, or to be a naive compassionate boob, and have your name in the paper as the latest victim in black on blue crime.
Same thing with the situation described in the link for hispanics.
Profiling is racist. Do you do it?
And um, spare us the "I'd approach every car the same way, politely, professionally cautiously."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/71ee9c9d-bbc0-3ac3-a0b0-1f60c8adc008/massachusetts-police-officer.htmlEdited by hokie at 18:07:44 on 07/15/18