racial profiling is a lactating latina woman named venesuela, who constantly bounces around on a giant squid in the streets of los angeles while throwing excrement from her mouth.
Criminal profiling is any police- initiated action that used the compliation of the background, physical, behavioral, and motivational characteristics for a type of perpretrator that lead the police....
Unfortunately the term has been co-opted and misused by the 'politically correct' crowd. If profiling (of ANY type) - be it age, gender, ethnicity, or race - can be used in order to apprehend...