The issue is the involvement in criminal activity. An individual's race can be part of a perpetrator's description ( Black, Hispanic, Middle Eastern). However, there is a difference between stopping and searching someone who fits the description of a criminal perpetrator, and stopping someone based on race alone on the pretext of preventing a crime that has not yet been committed. Most of the racial profiling cases I have seen were the result of someone being indiscriminately stopped in an airline terminal because he might be a terrorist.
If my description were close to that of a criminal perpetrator I would not be opposed to being stopped until the matter were cleared up. If on the other hand race was the only reason for being stopped I would be rather outraged. There are a lot of abuses in law enforcement without adding racial profiling to it.
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