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The author of Racial Profiling in Policing: Beyond the Basics recognizes that the topic of racial profiling in policing, in its basic form, is one that has been discussed for a number of years and from different perspectives. Despite the ample dialogue on this topic, however, the title of this book also suggests that although there seems to exist a universal and basic understanding on the perception of racial profiling in policing among police practitioners, civil rights leaders, and community members, there are still areas of this complex topic that remain unexplored.
After having served as a federal monitor in two of the largest and most significant police reform cases in the history of the United States and after training thousands of police officers, including all police chiefs in Texas during the past two decades, the author explains that despite the many areas of discussion related to racial profiling in policing, most people remain interested in knowing the extent to and the manner in which it could be eradicated.
Despite previous efforts made, the issue of racial profiling in policing is far more complex than it is made out to be by politicians, the media and those that follow a particular ideology which often times, seems to obscure logic and science. The contributions made in this book are not only related to its attempt to address these difficult topics, but to also provide a ""scientific approach"" to the understanding of racial profiling in policing. The perspective introduced in Racial Profiling in Policing: Beyond the Basics is one that disinherits political affiliation, and instead, relies on the experiences of an American Criminologist who migrated to the United States fleeing a civil war in his native Nicaragua, while finding himself in the middle of a different type of conflict in his newly adopted land. Therefore, this book is unique in the sense that it is truly based on an honest, direct and scientific dialogue on one of the most important topics in society and modern police practices--racial profiling.
