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Racial Profiling


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             In an article from the U.S. & World Report another victim, Elmo Randolph helped "put a human face on the problem." A 44 year old black dentist from New Jersey's Bergen County is among dozens more of minorities who are suing the New Jersey State Police who were supposedly stopping him illegally while he was driving. Randolph claims to have been pulled over 100 times in seven years. Never speeding or carrying drugs, Randolph was never arrested. The dentist stated that driving to work gave him overwhelming anxiety thinking would he be stopped or searched while driving to work, causing him to be late once again and it was "a known fact [that blacks need] to be careful on the turnpike.".
             Statistics .
             Statistics released by Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr. revealed that of all the searches performed by Police, they found contraband on twenty five percent of white drivers and on only thirteen percent of blacks drivers (Kit 2001). These Statistics showed that percent of police stops involved minorities (McCabe 2001). According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics Blacks and Hispanics were twice as likely to be searched or ticketed more than whites. Two Percent Blacks and Hispanics also experienced force or the treat force compared to one percent of whites (Jet 2001). .
             Operation Pipeline.
             In a November 29, 2000 New York Times article by David Kocieniewski, New Jersey officials "argue that the reason racial profiling is a national problem is that it was initiated, and in many way encouraged, by the federal government's war on drugs." Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr. released 91,000 documents stating that eighty percent of vehicular stops were targeted toward black and Hispanics drivers during the last decade. .
             In 1986, Operation Pipeline enrolled Police departments from all areas of the country to look for drug traffickers on major highways and initiated officers to specially look for West Indians and Latinos who ruled the drug trade.


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