Illinois Racial Profiling Report (Jesse's Happy, so its OK)

Illinois Department of Transportation ^ | July 1, 2005 | Illinois Governor's Office

[southlake_hoosier]

First year report on racial profiling released

Governor calls for permanent collection of racial profiling data more training on consent searches

Governor Rod. R. Blagojevich today announced actions the state will take to eliminate racial disparities in traffic stops, as results from the first year of Illinois' racial profiling study were released. The study, which involved approximately a thousand police agencies statewide, found that minorities are more likely to be pulled over than whites for a traffic stop and two and a half times as likely to have their car searched when pulled over.

"Some of the results of this study are positive, but other aspects are troubling. The only acceptable goal is making sure that everyone is treated equally and respectfully,” Governor Blagojevich said. “Collecting this data was a good start, but now that we have the data, our job is to make sure that we take every possible step so that everyone is treated fairly, and that’s what we’re doing today.”

[southlake_hoosier]

Time for the majority to slow down

Other links:

http://www.dot.state.il.us/press/Racial%20Profile%20Study%20.pdf

http://www.dot.state.il.us/trafficstop/results.html

[lilylangtree]

Well if Shakedown Jackson is o.k. then he won't be extorting monies from the state.

[hermgem]

Racial profiling, nowhere near based on incarceration data.
Unfortunately, the U.S. prison population is 52% black.
That means that 13% of the population fills over half of prisons spots.
The ratio of police checking for violations is nowhere near the rate of crimes committed based and reflected by imprisonment ratios.

[DMZFrank]

This law is the brainchild of that great junior US senator from Illinois Jesus- oops Barack Obama.