On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was the victim in an excessive force case committed by Los Angeles police officers. The police officers were tried but acquitted, which fueled the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and created a persistent climate of suspicion between law enforcement agencies and minority communities around the country.
Supplemental Funding
- $381,669 (November 2011)
- $275,000 (June 2013)
Scarcely any other controversy in law enforcement has received more attention in recent years than racial profiling. The practice of targeting, searching, or detaining individuals for criminal activity based on racial stereotypes surfaced in the national political and legal agenda in the late 1990s.