>>>Well that brings to light a other problem - the "stop and frisk" gestapo tactics that, for example, the NYC police were using - which means that a cop can stop and search you for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
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>I get it - the cops also will be profiling based on their expectations of who might be a criminal. That's one area where many of us may be beneficiaries of "white privilege" without even realizing it.

But I did. I had near zero trouble with the traffic cops while in the US - pulled over twice for minor infractions and passed with five minutes' chat each time. Because I look like an average white, grey bearded old rocker. And if they knew my profile (coming from a freshly denigrated nation, with a high frequency of DUI and unpronounceable names), they would have paid a lot. More attention to me, that is, like TSA did - but TSA couldn't read my name, which made me suspect.

OTOH my son in law is a full US born citizen, and gets routinely pulled over, because he tans easily, and wears a goatee so at a glance he may look Mexican.