racial profiling

Racial profiling is the discriminatory mistreatment of racial, ethnic, or religious minorities by police officers and other law enforcement or security personnel. It may consist of or result in the surveillance, searching, interrogation, detention, or arrest of a relatively large proportion of minorities—larger than that of the majority—in a given state or country. It may also involve harassment, aggression, and brutality on the part of police. At a minimum it involves police distrust of minorities....