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Criminal profiling is any police- initiated action that used the compliation of the background, physical, behavioral, and motivational characteristics for a type of perpretrator that lead the police. Racial profiling is any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national orgin rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being. or having been, engaged in criminal activity.

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What is the difference between legal profiling and illegal racial profiling?

Here's a bias based profiling link that explains it well: www.wppd.org/about/bbp.htm


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Criminal profiling is legal. Criminal profiling is used to help find a suspect; profilers identify traits that the perpetrator of the crime may have. Racial profiling is not legal. That is where police use stereotypes about people based on their color to accuse them of a crime or suspect them.


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