As it were, racial minorities are already overrepresented in the prison system, this explains why in Oakland for example, where 82% go the time the profile of a suspect for a violent assault is of an African American, officers become conditioned to look for suspects who are of a racial minority (Picker & Brame, 2008). Not only does racial profiling have negative consequences for the minority groups that are being profiled but also for the majority groups. These consequences help enable the practice of racial profiling as well. Racial profiling means concentrating resources on one group of people, therefor limiting resources on the Caucasian majority, causing their crime to remain undetected and causing an overrepresentation of minorities in
