Profiled

The I-Search is this 6-8 page, free-topic research paper.
My I-Search Topic: Police/Racial Profiling.
Racial Profiling: the act of taking characteristics of a population and applying them to an individual.

There's no question as to whether it exists or not. It's a matter of whether it's acceptable and accurate enough to be used. That's what I'm writing on: What is police profiling and how accurate is it?

My opinion BEFORE I had started researching was that it shouldn't be a part of our society. That it was wrong and it should be eliminated. But I started doing my notes and I read many stories in which police officers used their judgement to pull over suspicious individuals, and those individuals were carrying bombs and whatnot. I guess that it paid off to profile them in that situation. Many times, though, police pull over people just for "driving while black". Eh, I don't know what opinion I'm going to take on my paper. I'm in the middle.