Trying to deal with it also has made profiling something of a hot potato.
Nobody wants to get burned.
But the issue already has singed a few hands in the Legislature. A House committee this week killed a proposal, backed by Attorney General Bob Butterworth, to create a 12-member task force of representatives from law enforcement and the black community. The group would gather racial profiling data and recommend legislation for the next session that would outlaw the practice. The task force also would have given blacks a voice in solving a problem that has targeted them. That apparently is what some legislators and law enforcement officials want to avoid.