The 2008 Annual Report of Illinois Traffic Stops -- which resulted from a popular piece of legislation sponsored by then-Illinois state Senator Barack Obama -- paints an extremely complex picture of racial profiling.
In Illinois, black and Hispanic drivers are slightly more likely to be stopped and searched than white and Asian drivers -- although, as I've said, this does not seem to be the case nationally.
Either way, the important question for Illinois policymakers and law enforcement officials is whether any apparently disproportionate treatment is truly the result of racial profiling.
This is a very difficult question to answer, unfortunately.
Does the United States Spend Enough on Public Schools?
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I remain happy to provoke my readers: The United States ranks low among
peer countries on the ratio of teacher spending to per capita GDP. Is this
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