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Category 1 Directives: Traditional Law Enforcement Activities

Law enforcement officer making an arrestExample #1: In the course of investigating an auto theft ring in a federal park, law enforcement authorities could not properly choose to target individuals of a particular race as suspects, based on a generalized assumption that those individuals are more likely to commit auto theft.