A general theme I saw throughout this book was police officers use of racial profiling. According to Eitzen et al, “racial minority individuals in lower-class communities are more likely to be stopped, interrogated, arrested, and prosecuted. Racial profiling is the use of race and ethnicity as clues to criminality and potential terrorism” (205). One of the most apparent examples of this is Walter McMillian’s case. The death penalty is 22 times more likely when the defendant is black and the victim is white, like in Walter’s case. He was placed on death row before the trial even began. This just shows that they knew what the result of the trail was going to be. This example just adds to the statistic that a black defendant against a white victim