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If that link doesn't work, type "racial profiling in minneapolis" into google and you'll find it.
The study concludes that minneapolis police stop black and latino drivers at rates significantly higher than expected based on their proportion of the city's driving age population. They stopped american indian, asian and whites less than expected. Discretionary search rates were twice as high for latino, black, and american indian drivers than they were for whites, despite the fact that minneapolis police were more likely to find contraband during discretionary searches of white drives than any other race/ethnicity.
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When you are a cop, you do not look for minorities. You look for people breaking the law. If that person happens to be African-American, so be it. Maybe it is just that they commit more crimes?
From the FBI Database in 2002: Murder crimes
Whites: 5,356
Blacks: 5,579
Now, the whites are the majority but are committing less crimes.