Reddit reviews Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work
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Statistically there are more random traffic stops on blacks than whites.
Anecdotally, when I lived in small town Utah, my employer hired a black news photographer from out of state. He got pulled over an average of 3 times daily for the first several weeks he worked for us, for reasons like "it looked like your license plate light was out", and never got ticketed. After he'd met every officer in town he stopped getting stopped.
See david a. Harris' ” profiles in injustice: why racial profiling cannot work” for hard numbers. There ARE some traffic cops in nyc who never in an entire year pull over a non black person. Since all races break traffic laws right and left, that's racism.
edit: adding link now that I'm not on a phone.
http://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Injustice-Police-Profiling-Cannot/dp/1565846966
The book does a great job of pointing out why it's ineffective policing to pull over people based on skin color when a much better indication of a criminal is BEHAVIOR / ACTIONS.