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Because Cincinnati--like many cities--doesn't yet collect racial data on police activity, it is hard to say whether the police force is as bad as some claim. But several facts about the force may help explain why many blacks feel that cops are biased--why they may believe they were racially profiled during a traffic stop even if their taillight was burned out. First, the police division is only 28% African American, while the city is 43% black. Cincinnati is the 10th most segregated city in the nation, according to the 2000 Census. That segregation is reflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Race Got To Do With It? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Racial suspicion abounds on the force. Some white cops fume about hiring practices established in 1987 to make the division more racially balanced. For every 4 whites promoted, 1 black must be promoted. "Can you imagine how you'd feel," asks Fangman of the Fraternal Order of Police, "if you studied your a__ off, got the right score and got passed over because of race?" Black officers are embittered too. "There are 16 captains--1 is black. There are 41 lieutenants--6 are black," notes Scotty Johnson, president of the Sentinels, a black police group. "I don't think they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Race Got To Do With It? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Cincinnati is a place where even the authorities--black and white--suspect that authority works against them. In a city where even fellow officers don't entirely trust one another, no wonder mere citizens raise their antennae during police encounters. Reports of racial profiling have taught many of us to be suspicious of cops. But if we act suspicious, cops notice. And when cops get scared--is that guy reaching for a wallet or his gun?--the whole process of distrust and fear can all too easily spiral into danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Race Got To Do With It? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...debate over racial profiling may be giving that trend another shove. And it will yield mountains of data in the next few years as police departments begin to release figures on the people they stop. But the hard part will be to figure out why they stop them--and whether race should ever be part of the reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Race Got To Do With It? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...talk these days of racial profiling that has set off my nerves in this way. Having grown up in the era of segregation, I know I can survive the racial profiling of a cabby. What makes me most nervous is the anxiety that I have wrongly estimated the degree of racism in American life. I am a conservative. But conservatism is a misunderstood identity in blacks that would be much easier to carry in a world where New York City cab drivers stopped for black fares, even after dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hailing While Black | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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