Monday, March 07, 2005

Study: Profiling reports flawed / Dallas News. 5 Mar 2005

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Michael Grabell
"UNT research may help police agencies fill holes in race disparity data. A spokesman said a statewide report by trained analysts would better gauge racial profiling and avoid uninformed conclusions that all police departments are biased. 'Every police department chief that I've ever met, and certainly in the state of Texas, abhors the idea of race-based or racial policing,' he said. 'They want to be able to identify the ' for lack of a better term' cowboys who are doing things that are inappropriate.' "