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“Searches… showed a clear racial pattern. Blacks made up fifty-three percent of all those drivers subjected to consent searches… far higher than their representation among drivers on the road… despite evidence that the use of race… is not an effective police tactic."
The Reality of Racial Disparity in Criminal Justice: The Significance of Data Collection
Law and Contemporary Problems
Vol. 66 Issue 3, pp. 71–98,
2003
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