Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of data compiled about people who have committed criminal offenses in the effort to describe or identify the most likely suspects in a particular crime.
- noun The use of racial, economic, ethnic, or other characteristics by law enforcement as the basis of determining whom to search or investigate on suspicion of criminal activity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
forensic science ofconstructing anoutline of a person'sindividual characteristics - noun military, historical In the construction of
fieldworks , theerection at proper intervals of woodenprofiles , to show to the workmen thesectional form of theparapets at those points. - verb Present participle of
profile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
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Examples
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RON: No. Actually, the problem with the term profiling I think is the semantics behind it and the fact that most people would interpret profiling as racial or ethnic profiling.
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More specifically, the term profiling is often used in a context that renders it analogous to discrimination.
Archive 2009-03-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009
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More specifically, the term profiling is often used in a context that renders it analogous to discrimination.
Canadian Human Rights Commission Study on Police Profiling Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009
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This is, after all, a sportswriter who made his name profiling adventurers who lived on the edge, a guy's guy who apparently doesn't feel so tough inside.
NYT > Home Page By EMMA FORREST 2011
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With this new law - racial profiling is inevitable.
Poll: Majority support Arizona immigration law, with reservations 2010
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Racial profiling is insulting to the very image of this country.
Gingrich: 'Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate' 2009
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Political Correct Reference to "racial profiling" is also insane.
Arizona governor bucks senator's request over immigration law 2010
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And even Bush guy Michael Chertoff has said that profiling is worse than useless.
Gingrich: 'Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate' 2009
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Carte blanche racial profiling is the name of this game, and it's a dangerous step in the wrong direction.
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So ... racial profiling is illegal, as is trespassing across the border.
Anger over Arizona immigration law will be on basketball court 2010
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