Throughout the course of our lives, we have to make decisions based on "rules of thumbs". Cops have to make decisions based on "profiles" determined by such ru

Throughout the course of our lives, we have to make decisions based on "rules of thumbs". Cops have to make decisions based on "profiles" determined by such rules of thumbs based on statistics, experience and sometime hunches. Detective, investigative works have been based on profiling for ages. Call it data mining if you will. Clearly, if such profiling is based strictly & exclusively on race, then it is racist and perhaps stupid and ineffective as well. And the US history has witnessed a fair share of racial issues. Nevertheless, the content of this article appears to be race baiting, not honestly examining the issue of "stop and frisk".