Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Journal #12: AZ Central.

An Arizona study of traffic stops found new evidence of racial-profiling by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Researchers cautioned that other factors may explain the high rate of arrests and vehicle searches involving minorities. In 2006 the University of Cincinnati report, Highway Patrol officers were more than twice as likely to search vehicles driven by Hispanics and Blacks than those operated by Anglos. I know this is wrong in number of ways, and while I was reading this I couldn't help but think of what Kanye West said in one of his raps, "Racism still alive they just be concealing it." Just something to think about.

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