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Article: NEW DISPUTE ERUPTS ON RACE PROFILING ISSUE POLICE OFFICERS WON'T HAVE TO RECORD OWN ETHNIC BACKGROUND.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 24, 2000
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Early next year, when Seattle officers begin recording the race of every individual they stop, there is one piece of data they won't have to include:
Their own race.
Experts believe that omission could render the effort - announced this week to see whether racial profiling happens in Seattle - useless.
``The ultimate objective is one to determine whether or not African Americans or Hispanics are being stopped, but equally important is who is doing it,'' asserts John Burris, a Los Angeles civil rights attorney and author of a book about conflict between police and minorities.
To Burris and others who keep a sharp eye on the growing ...