Racial profiling

On Facebook pages of some stores or boutiques woman often write that they feel like they are being judged. Like based on their clothes or general appearance shopping assistants serve them better or worse. It is called profiling. When you are being judged based on your clothes you can always change them, or as in this case change the store :) But what if someone is profiled based on race, ethnicity or nationality? 

Racial profiling is "the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense." Department of Justice in 2003 issued a document Guidance Regarding The Use Of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies where it describes racial profiling: "(...) at its core concerns the invidious use of race or ethnicity as a criterion in conducting stops, searches and other law enforcement investigative procedures". This was one of many documents where racial profiling was described as wrong and ineffective. But The Ferguson shooting and what happened after shows that it is still very "hot" topic. 

Racial profiling was mentioned in my last-week post, where John Oliver talked about it on his programme. And just yesterday US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Department of Justice will issue a new guideline that will end racial profiling "once and for all". He is on a tour where he meets law enforcement officials and community leaders and his first stop was Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor. He talked about police militarization(my last-week topic), role of the police in a community, how overall system of justice must be strengthened and, of course, racial profiling.

But what I'm really curious about is how issuing yet another guideline can prevent racial profiling.

 BBC - US attorney general calls for end to racial profiling

2003 Guidance