Is racial profiling a Virginia problem?

December 3, 2007 | Virginia News

Citizens, state police disagree; Charlottesville-based Virginia Organizing Project wants numbers

As a part of its Statewide Racial Profiling Campaign, VOP is working to get Virginia State Police and all local law enforcement agencies to collect data on all traffic stops. Currently, data is only available for stops resulting in an arrest or summons. VOP wants to know who is being pulled over when those two things don't happen. More specifically, it wants to know if race or ethnicity is a factor in traffic stops, and whether minority drivers are subject to searches, tickets or arrests more frequently than whites.

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December 1, 2007 | VACP

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