More on racial profiling
1.  Consequences of racial profiling   
2.  Key reports on the web   
3.  Other resources   

1. Consequences of racial profiling
 Racial profiling, in the context of our drug paraphernalia laws, is a significant factor in the spread of HIV/AIDS among black and Latino injecting drug users.  But it has other serious consequences as well:(1)

bullet Deaths of innocent people, as in the Amado Diallo case
  
bullet Disqualification of blacks from voting  
Key report from the Sentencing Project
Associated Press article summarizing this issue
  
bullet Loss of faith in the criminal justice system  
bullet White drug users remaining largely untouched by drug law enforcement, as law enforcement efforts focus on minorities
bullet Whites deceiving themselves about the vast extent of drug use among whites, when drug use is defined as a minority problem.

2. Key reports on the web(2)

bullet Driving While Black: Racial Profiling On Our Nation's Highways, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), June 1999.
bullet Justice On Trial: Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Leadership Conference Education Fund, May 2000.
bullet Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs. Human Rights Watch Report, May  2000.  Includes a section on racially disproportionate drug arrests.
bullet New Jersey: the State Police  Some 91,000 pages of government documents on racial profiling released November 27, 2000 by the New Jersey Attorney General.  This website also includes links to articles on racial profiling published in New Jersey newspapers and other related materials and links.
bullet Racial profiling in California 

 3. Other resources

bullet American Civil Liberties Union  
bullet Links to concerned organizations through the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights site
bullet David Cole, No Equal Justice, New York: The New Press. 1999. 218 pages.

Footnotes
(1)

David Rohde, "Juror' Trust in Police Erodes in Light of Diallo and Louima, New York Times, March 9, 2000, page B1.

Bob Herbert, "Criminal Justice Breakdown," New York Times, February 14, 2000, page A21.

Orlando Patterson, "Life, Liberty and Excessive Force," New York Times, February 28, 2000, page A19.

Kevin Flynn, "Shooting Raises Scrutiny of Police Anti-drug Tactics," New York Times, page. 1.

William J. Bratton, "Why Lowering Crime Didn't Raise Trust," New York Times, February 25, 2000, page A19.
(2) A search under "racial profiling" on the website of the International Association of Chiefs of Police will yield many references.
For a list of other materials used on this website, see References.