As the issue of racial profiling made its way to the national agenda, Parks steadfastly maintained that his officers did not engage in that practice. But he once gave an interviewer what amounted to a textbook definition of racial profiling.
"It's not the fault of the police when they stop minority males or put them in jail," he said. "It's the fault of the minority males for committing the crime. In my mind, it is not a great revelation that, if officers are looking for criminal activity, they're going to look at the kind of people who are listed on crime reports."
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