ABSTRACT
Media coverage of racial profiling has increased in the past 15 years, but controversy still exists over what racial profiling even means.5 The term gained popularity in the late 1980s when it became clear that police were stopping blacks for traffic violations at suspiciously high rates, prompting discussion of a new “crime” of “driving while black.”6 In other words, the black community believed law enforcement was continuing to target minorities for false or minor crimes just as officers had in the 1800s and early mid-1900s.
