Actually profiling is not wrong. All departments of law enforcement do it...ever heard of a profiler?
Racial profiling is wrong, however if you are a cop who sees a black male wearing gang colors, driving a caprice on 22's, and smoking a blunt, you view him differently than a white male - or black male, who is wearing a business suit and driving a Lexus - and there is nothing wrong with that. The former fits the profile of a criminal. The latter does not.
I have spent the last 7 months working video surveillance at xxxxxx dept store along side of off-duty police officers, some are white, others black. All of them will tell you the same thing regarding profiling.
Another example:
Calling a middle easterner a terrorist because he is muslim and wearing a burka is wrong.
Calling a middle easterner a potential terrorist because he is muslim, screaming "jihad! American's must die!" and shaking a fully automatic firearm in the air is ok.
I will spend a lot more time watching shoppers who look like white trash or hood-rats than I will watching 70 year old blue haired ladies. That is profiling, but it is also the right thing to do if I am going to do my job well.
The funny thing is, the hood-rats usually steal one pair of jeans or a bottle of cologne or a hoodie...the white trash usually stuffs a bag with $2000 worth of clothes and then bolts for the door...or grabs $1000 worth of coats and bolts for the door. I do my best to catch them both.