Fundamentally, the problem with that approach to policing is that racism is inherent to human interaction. Without training to recognize it, unconscious bias wi

Fundamentally, the problem with that approach to policing is that racism is inherent to human interaction. Without training to recognize it, unconscious bias will set off a person's "spidey-sense" because they perceive someone of a different skin color to be "out of place" subconsciously, which makes them keener to look for reasons to stop at a conscious level. This is to say nothing of people who know they're racist and don't care; I'm thinking specifically of people who haven't been trained in unconscious bias yet. As the officer, you're not even likely to notice you're doing it. As a person of the "wrong skin color" driving through a high-rent neighborhood, you'll start to notice real fast that your commute is disrupted all the damn time. My personal story: I'm white, but I used to drive a beater with crappy temperature control and was taking a new route home late at night while wearing a stocking cap. Got pulled over for ostensibly making a left on red (on a deserted road in the middle of the night, when I'm pretty confident the light was green). If the officer's real reason for pulling me over is that I looked like I was casing the neighborhood for a place to rob, I don't really blame him; I was dressed like one of the Wet Bandits from Home Alone. ;)