Sure enough, statistics revealed that nearly three in every four motorists stopped on the turnpike were members of minorities (Most 95). Henry Lee, the forensic scientist who re-created the New Jersey shooting for the state investigation, said, "It's a miracle nobody was killed,"" (Most 93). Reverend Al Sharpton got a group to protest the civil disobedience against the New York City shooting. The effect, 1,000 people were arrested for civil disobedience (Leo 16). Hilary Clinton couldn't mind her own business. She called the Diallo killing a murder (Chua-Eoan 27).
Studies have been done and its points to the police. In New York complaints are up against New York cops. But in the 42nd and 44th precincts it's down. Because officers are required to treat residents with respect (Cannon&Morrow 37). But it's not just the blacks that are targeted. In Illinois, Hispanics take up 8% of the population; they represented 30% of the drivers stooped by police (Drummond 61). In Maryland the percentage of whites driving on I-95 is 76%, percentage of blacks 17%. The percentage of police searches on white drivers was 20%, on blacks it was 73%. That's a big difference (Drummond 61). A poll done by New York News polled 100 Black and Hispanic men, 81 said they had been stopped and frisked at least once (Leo 16). All these studies show that police profiling might be a problem.
So what's being done about it? Civil Liberties groups wants federal legislation requiring all law-enforcement agencies to track racial data from traffic stops (Drummond 61). New Orleans police set up a warning system to spot cops with repeat offenses of profiling (Cannon&Morrow 35). Cops better watch the law. Five states have since passed state laws outlawing racial profiling. Partly as a result of the turnpike shooting and its aftermath, video cameras have been installed in New Jersey State police cruisers to record all traffic stops (Most 95).
