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.
A contagion of uncertainty
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That is my latest piece for The Free Press, here is one excerpt: It is not
merely that the policies keep on changing. We are seeing that the policies
did...
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