Prior to those in charge telling the police what they are doing incorrect, they must outline it for themselves first. Criminologists are still trying to figure out how much profiling really goes on. It is very hard to measure since there is no set definition been determined. It has been suggested that the police are more probable to look for minorities because they commit an uneven amount of crimes. According to statistics in 2001, blacks were twelve percent of the nation's population but accounted for twenty seven percent of all sexual-assault convictions, sixty six percent of all robbery convictions and thirty eight percent of all fraud and embezzlement convictions. If one sets aside the numbers and goes back to Cincinnati. In 2001, riots exploded following a white officer shooting and killing a black man that was unarmed, who was wanted by the system not for a vicious crime but for a number of misdemeanors, many of which were traffic violations. There was a feeling that this person had...

Since Cincinnati, like a lot of other cities, doesn't accumulate racial statistics on police action, it is hard to determine whether the power being used is as terrible as some think. There are more than a few details about the power though, that may help make clear why many African-Americans feel that police are prejudiced and why they might think they were racially profiled in a traffic stop even if they were stopped for a legitimate reason. The police division is only twenty eight percent black, while the city is forty three percent African-American. According to the 2000 census, Cincinnati ranks eighth in most segregation around the nation. This separation can be seen within the police department as a lot of the officers graduated from the same Catholic high school on the, mostly Caucasian, West side of town.
References

Cloud, John. (2001). What's Race Got to Do With it? Retrieved November 10, 2010, from Time

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