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The Gallup poll found that 77 percent of African Americans, and 56 percent of whites, felt racial profiling was widespread. About four in ten African Americans--and almost three-quarters of young black men--said they have been stopped because of their race. Racial profiling was defined to survey respondents as a practice whereby "police officers stop motorists of certain racial or ethnic groups because the officers believe that these groups are more likely than others to commit certain types of crimes." The survey was based on 2,006 telephone interviews conducted between September 24 and November 16, 1999, with a randomly selected sample of adults across the United States. The margin of error was 4 percent margin for the sample of 934 white respondents, and 5 percent for the sample of 1,001 black respondents. Click here for more information.
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