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Racial Profiling Laws Yield Data but Few Changes

August 09 2011

Many states collect information about police traffic stops to determine whether racial profiling exists. But lawmakers, police and civil rights groups disagree on how best to use that data and, in some cases, on what it really means.

Nearly a dozen states require police to collect data about racial bias in traffic stops, but in most cases, little use is made of the data. You can read more here.

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