1. Department of Public Safety and Racial Profiling
In a recent development in Arizona on April 23, 2010, the state passed a Senate Bill 2010, requiring local law enforcement officers to ask people for their legal status at all stop and searches. ... The enactment of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 could be seen as the State attempt to enforce Federal authority. ... Many researches argued that law enforcement officers systematic used of racial profiling affected predominant innocent Blacks were becoming trapped in this new policing strategy (Del Carmen, 2008; Harris, 1999; Russell, 1998; Milovanovic & Russell, 2001; Withrow, 2006). ...
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