I concur with your statement, there has been a surge in racial profiling since the 9/11 attacks. The intelligence community classified this type of profiling as threat profiling. In do believe the decision to implement profiling in law enforcement has bleed over to some other areas that should uphold their oaths of serving and protecting. In my opinion, target profiling has greatly contributed to disrupting the plans of terrorist. However, threat profiling has been skewed to a form of racial profiling, which greatly affects American citizens. Additionally, American citizens are continuously victimized by racial profiling, which violates their civil and Constitutional rights. Criminal profiling refers to the process of identifying behavioral
