Profiling Arab-Americans. (letters).

It's amazing how people of different races treat each other these days ("Guilty of Looking Arab," 11/12/01). It's like World War II, except now it's happening to Arab-Americans. There are better ways to spend your time, other than bullying people because they are different.

CECILY NG San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Calif.

Your article on racial profiling The consideration of race, ethnicity, or national origin by an officer of the law in deciding when and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity.

Police officers often profile certain types of individuals who are more likely to perpetrate crimes. after the September 11 tragedy should remind us that prejudice in the U.S. is still very much alive and that our hostility was merely waiting to resurface re·sur·face
v. re·sur·faced, re·sur·fac·ing, re·sur·fac·es

v.tr.
To cover with a new surface: resurfacing a road; resurfaced the floor.

v.intr. in a different form.

SAMANTHA MAXWELL Canfield, Ohio Canfield is a city located in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, at the intersection of U.S. Route 224 and State Route 46, about ten miles southwest of Youngstown. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 7,374.

I am in favor of racial profiling, not because I am a racist, but because all the terrorists have been Arab, and to look at an Arab and not think negatively is hard. I am going to France this summer and it is terrifying ter·ri·fy
tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies
1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten.

2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. to think that the plane could be a target for a terrorist attack. I know it's wrong to discriminate against people because of how they look, but after our experience with terrorism, I know I want the best security there is.

MELISSA RAGER Austintown, Ohio

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