Quote of note:
The Northeastern study confirms a Boston Globe study of the same traffic tickets last year: Minorities, especially men, are disproportionately ticketed and searched in most communities in the state. And when police officers decide whether to write a ticket or a warning, women are far more likely to get a break.
Racial profiling is confirmed
Police face new rules on stopping motorists
By Bill Dedman, Globe Correspondent | May 4, 2004
Three out of four police departments in Massachusetts have engaged in racial profiling against nonwhite drivers, state Public Safety Secretary Edward A. Flynn is expected to report today.
To monitor police interaction with citizens, Flynn could require officers in as many as 249 departments, including state troopers, to fill out an extra form every time they pull over a motorist, even when they don't write a ticket or a warning.
Four years after the Legislature ordered a test for racial profiling in Massachusetts, police departments will receive their final grades this morning. Flynn is scheduled to release the final report of a state-sponsored study of traffic tickets by Northeastern University's Institute on Race and Justice and to announce what standard he will set for requiring the additional paperwork. Northeastern posted the report on its website last night.
The attorney for the state's police chiefs association predicted that many police officers will respond to Flynn's ruling by "de-policing," doing fewer traffic stops lest they give more ammunition to their critics.
Posted by P6 at May 4, 2004 04:19 PM
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The title to this post is a joke, I hope . . .
Posted by Colorado Luis at May 4, 2004 05:05 PMSatire rather than humor, of course.
Posted by P6 at May 4, 2004 08:18 PM