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Profiling
Complaints
Criminal profiling is a legitimate tool
in the fight against crime. Criminal profiling is an investigative
method in which an officer, through observation of activities and
environment, identifies suspicious behavior by individuals and
develops a legal basis, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, to
stop them for questioning.
However, illegal profiling refers to a decision by an officer to
stop, detain, interdict, or search an individual based solely on the
race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or sexual orientation. This
Department prohibits illegal profiling as a law enforcement tactic
and will not tolerate or condone its use by any of our members.
It is
the Orlando Police Department's philosophy to assist law enforcement
in accomplishing this total mission in a way that respects the
dignity of all persons and yet sends a strong message to actual and
potential lawbreakers that if they break the law, that behavior will
not be tolerated and they will likely encounter the police.
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