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The Supreme Court’s “Whren decision allows police to use race as a basis for a stop while hiding behind the traffic violation, no matter how minor, as the pretext for the stop… Vice officers … enforce … one as trivial as stopping too long at a stop sign."

Race Matters: A Critical Look at Racial Profiling, It's a Matter for the Courts

Journal of Criminal Justice

Birzer, Michael L. / Birzer, Gwynne Harris

Vol. 34 Issue 6, pp. 643–651, 2006

10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2006.09.017

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