The career for the term seems to have started in 1994, but sparked in 1998 when two white New Jersey Troopers pulled over a van for speeding near Trenton, New Jersey. Inside were four occupants who were all black or Hispanic heading toward a basketball tryout at a North Carolina college in aspiration of obtaining a scholarship. When the van unexpectedly reversed toward them, officers fired eleven shots wounding three of the inhabitants. Troopers Jame

In an article from the U.S. & World Report another victim, Elmo Randolph helped “put a human face on the problem.” A 44 year old black dentist from New Jersey’s Bergen County is among dozens more of minorities who are suing the New Jersey State Police who were supposedly stopping him illegally while he was driving. Randolph claims to have been pulled over 100 times in seven years. Never speeding or carrying drugs, Randolph was never arrested. The dentist stated that driving to work gave him overwhelming anxiety thinking would he be stopped or searched while driving to work, causing him to be late once again and it was “a known fact [that blacks need] to be careful on the turnpike.”

In this report the statistics stated that the greatest percentage of people found with contraband on highways were white. If this is so why did the D.E.A. instruct police agencies that the key to catching a smuggler would be based on race? The NY Times quoted Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr. saying. "On one hand, we were training them not to take race into account. On the other hand, all the intelligence featured race and ethnicity prominently. So what is your average road-trooper to make of all this?" How is it that the Justice Department who over sees the D.E.A. release documents stating that minorities are being scrutinized more by police on highway, but be the same people who instructed the police to do just what they are complaining about? Could it be that Operation Pipeline didn't go as smoothly as the Department of Justice thought it would? Or did their secret get out and know they are trying to cover up the truth? How is it that after a police officer wrongfully shoots three unarmed men, the next month receives honors for his work? NY Times Writer David Kocieniewski stated answers these questions by saying “Civil rights advocates have said they have had to rely so heavily on federal agencies to fight discrimination by local police forces that there has been little opportunity to focus on the more contentious issue of asking the Justice Department to police itself ”

In a November 29, 2000 New York Times article by David Kocieniewski, New Jersey officials “argue that the reason racial prof

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