Ethnic Studies Practice Exam

Using race or ethnicity as a basis for predicting criminal behavior by police describes racial profiling. This means decisions about stops, searches, or who is treated as a suspect are made largely because of someone’s race rather than on observed actions or solid evidence. That is why this description fits the concept best: it focuses on race as a predictor used by law enforcement. The other options describe policing in ways that don’t center the SAMPLEuse of race to forecast crime—community policing aims to build trust and partnerships, not to label people by race; a policy to legalize profiling isn’t what defines the practice itself; and stopping people at random for everyone isn’t profiling, since it does not rely on racial or ethnic characteristics to predict wrongdoing.