Public opinion research on racial and religious profiling remains thin.

Evidence

But following 9/11, this discussion changed course and made it acceptable to undertake racial or religious profiling of Arabs and Muslims in connection with terrorist activities (Von Sikorski et al. 2018). … There is a wide body of study on the races and ethnicities that are most likely to be profiled; audiences’ perceptions of racial profiling are less well-documented. A small number of studies on public opinion about racial and religious profiling indicate that the public is in favor of profiling solely to prevent terrorism. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 24

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle on how the post-9/11 normalization of profiling outpaced the scholarship measuring what publics actually thought about it.
• XREF: connects to: Evidence for countering violent extremism programming remains thin and methodologically weak. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 212