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13: Criminal Profiling: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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    This discussion entails both empirical data and the work experience of a thirty-eight year law enforcement veteran. The section compares criminal profiling with actual practice. The author contends that the birth place of criminal profiling is found in Terry v. Ohio. This section suggests that criminal profiling is a day to day practice of street officers and the much romanticized psychological criminal profiling, which is relatively new, is a by-product portrayed in the media. Policing tactics and methodologies dealing with criminal behaviors, unlike racial profiling, is generally recognized as an acceptable process. Whereas racial profiling, is immoral, unethical, and illegal. The public often has a problem differentiating between the two, specifically in light of highly publicized episodes of police use of deadly force. The reader will synthesize the impacts of the 9/11 Terrorist attacks on America and profiling. Readers are encouraged to create a creative works that provides avenues that overcome the two issues.

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