New Mexico Sentencing Commission
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Variably called bias-based policing, racial profiling, or Driving While Black or Brown, the phenomenon of apparent disparate treatment of minorities by police has received considerable attention from the media, academics, politicians, and government organizations in recent years. A common contention is that the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. combined with practices employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement officials prominent in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the ‘War on Drugs’ (e.g. the use of drug courier profiles disseminated by the U.S. Department of Justice to state police [Warren et al. 2006)]) caused minorities to be targeted disproportionately by traffic enforcement officers (Warren et al 2006; Engel & Calnon 2004; Meehan & Ponder 2002; Ridgeway 2006; Smith et al. 2003).
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