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A powerful, myth-busting argument against racial profiling. Racial profiling—as practiced by police officers, highway troopers, and customs officials—has become one of America's most explosive public issues. But even as protest against the practice has swelled, little attention has been given to the law enforcement basis of profiling. Indeed, profiling has become one of the nation's most hotly contested social issues partly because of the assumption that underlying the practice is a common-sense consideration of racial patterns in crime. Profiling, it has been repeatedly argued, is ultimately rational. <i>Profiles in Injustice</i> dismantles those arguments, drawing on a wealth of new evidence to show convincingly that profiling is not only morally and legally wrong—but startlingly mistaken and ineffective. In this myth-busting book, David Harris—described by the <i>Seattle Times</i> as "America's leading authority on racial profiling"—reveals that the data collected by law-enforcement agencies themselves on racial profiling makes the case against it. Though it has been argued that people of color are targeted by police because they are disproportionately involved in crime, statist

Author

David A. Harris, David A. Harris

Publisher

New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565848184

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, True Crime