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in the car if Robert" cousin did not sign sign the consent form. The dog showed up and did not alert to the police that drugs where present, Robert took down all the police officers information and left quietly. The book then shows that the police had a good reason to stop and search the car. They had received a criminal intelligence report that states that black drug smugglers were using rental cars along that highway to transport drugs. The police had a good cause in pulling the car over and doing what they did, the vehicle fit the description of known drug traffickers. .
I found an article in City Journal Vol. 11 N.2 Titled The Myth of Racial Profiling by Heather Mac Donald. This article shows the one sidedness of reporting about racial profiling and its effect of law enforcement agencies. Mac Donald explains the two types of profiling, hard profiling and soft profiling "hard" profiling uses race as the only factor in assessing criminal suspiciousness: an officer sees a black person and, without more to go on, pulls him over for a pat-down on the chance that he may be carrying drugs or weapons. "Soft" racial profiling is using race as one factor among others in gauging criminal suspiciousness: the highway police, for example, have intelligence that Jamaican drug posses with a fondness for Nissan Pathfinders are transporting marijuana along the northeast corridor. A New Jersey trooper sees a black motorist speeding in a Pathfinder and pulls him over in the hope of finding drugs. .
Law enforcement agencies have worked together in slowing the drug trade as shown in the article in the city journal. .
The DEA taught state troopers some common identifying signs of drug couriers: nervousness; conflicting information about origin and destination cities among vehicle .
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