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...Racial profiling by Massachusetts police could be a huge problem—but until the state completes a comprehensive study of the race of Bay Staters pulled over in traffic stops, nobody can really be sure. Cue Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly. Thanks to his recent decision to force 128 towns to collect race data for traffic stops, Massachusetts might finally find out just how disproportionately minority citizens are pulled over...
...state legislature, which came out last May. The report analyzed traffic citations, warnings and search data for the state’s 366 law enforcement agencies. Under the statute that commissioned the study, Flynn was required to determine whether Northeastern’s data suggested a pattern of racial profiling in various local police forces. He thus ordered 249 Massachusetts law enforcement agencies to collect additional data for a one-year period, while he excused 117 others...
...important to remember that nothing has been proven conclusively so far. Reilly has kept mum on whether or not he thinks there actually is widespread racial profiling in Massachusetts police departments; he has insisted neither his decision nor the secretary’s earlier findings draw any conclusions about whether these agencies engage in racial profiling. Reilly has wisely strayed from demonizing the hard work of police departments, and he has said that he thinks the one-year data collection is more of a snapshot of the current situation and an opportunity to prevent a problem from spreading or becoming...
Having lived in America both before and after 9/11, Al-Dewachi says he has seen firsthand the changing nature of such consciousness. Photographed, fingerprinted and screened by the Immigration Naturalization Service, Al-Dewachi speaks of this exhibit as a way to mediate this form of racial science and profiling. “Racial science still exists and is alive and present,” he says, “only today it is undertaken in the name of security and not science...
...scientific element of Field’s journey resonates in the modern world, where one is aware of the dangers of racial classification and stereotyping—techniques employed in the name of science and physical anthropology. Field’s conclusions, though, were more in line with Boas’ findings: the distinguishing features of Ma’dan and non-Ma’dan peoples are not biological, but cultural...