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"Profiling" is one of those terms that gets tossed around as being something "evil", but is rarely used accurately. A cop pulling over a riced-out car is not "profiling". A cop pulling over someone creeping down a back road in the middle of the night is not "profiling". I'm sure zulu has seen instances of speeders complaining they were "profiled" ("He treated me like a SPEEDER, just because I was speeding - that's PROFILING!")

A cop randomly pulling you over and asking for your idents is not (necessarily) profiling you. Checking that everyone on the road is allowed to be on the road is a normal part of the job. I was heading out to Iona Beach late late one night to take some pictures - cop pulled me over to check idents, just because, well, it's his job, and it's unusual for people to be going out there late late at night. Bone stock '87 Accord, nothing racy or stand-out-ish about me or the car... just checked that everything was on the up-and-up and sent me on my way.