According to the Department of Justice, any police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than behavior is called ________.

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The definition given matches that of racial profiling which is when law enforcement uses race, ethnicity, or national origin as a basis for their actions rather than actual behavior or evidence of wrongdoing. Panethnicity refers to the grouping of people from different ethnic backgrounds into one category, scapegoating is blaming a person or group unjustly for something they did not do, and ethnic cleansing is the forced expulsion or eradication of an ethnic group from a particular territory.

According to the Department of Justice, Any Police-Initiated Action Based