profiling
Definition of profiling
: the act or process of extrapolating information about a person based on known traits or tendencies consumer profiling; specifically : the act of suspecting or targeting a person on the basis of observed characteristics or behavior racial profiling
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Recent Examples of profiling from the Web
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Tevlin also recommends $200,000 to support implementation of AB 953, a new state regulation that requires the Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to boost data collection related to racial profiling.
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Rhode Island’s largest city has approved final passage of a police accountability measure proponents say could be a national model to prevent discriminatory profiling based on race, gender identity and immigration status.
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El Paso County's lawsuit argues the sanctuary city ban would violate the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection because the ban would encourage racial profiling from police.
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Because the protestors were mostly Hispanic, Rinaldi was accused of mass racial profiling.
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The report said assessing that question required a wider array of data as well as an analysis of the department’s progress in revising its street-stop policies and providing training on what constitutes racial profiling.
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The new law of the land in Texas, which takes effect Sept. 1, encourages racial profiling.
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Such ethnic and religious profiling of protesters was not unusual.
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The conference is focusing on that issue, as well as hiring and recruitment, racial profiling, management techniques, and interaction with the community.
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First Known Use of profiling
1980
PROFILING Defined for English Language Learners
profiling
Definition of profiling for English Language Learners
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: the act or process of learning information about someone based on what is already known
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: the act or practice of regarding particular people as more likely to commit crimes because of their appearance, race, etc.
Law Dictionary
profiling
Legal Definition of profiling
: the practice of singling out persons for law enforcement procedures on the basis of predetermined characteristics; specifically : the discriminatory practice of profiling based on race or ethnicity racial profiling
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