Testing Racial Profiling: Empirical Assessment of Disparate Treatment by Police
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New Mexico Sentencing Commission
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 loc...
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