That may perhaps be so. In my mind ``racial profiling'' means ``we're going to stop every Arabic-looking person at the airport because they might be carrying a bomb'' or stopping any black person in a mostly-white neighborhood. Or, as MST3k put it, ``You're rich and white; I don't see a problem.'' Simply relaying a description of a suspect is not ``racial profiling'' as long as it's based in fact and not assumption. Anyway, that's what I'm using as my definition as to whether or not I support it.

I have a problem with this, as I've been pulled over any number of times based on the fact that I live in or near reasonably affluent neighborhoods and have long hair and don't bother shaving that often. That's very closely akin to racial profiling to me, and it bothers me, as my hair is something I can actively control, if I wanted to. Being black or middle-eastern isn't.