Wednesday, November 29, 2000

U.S. Wrote Outline for Race Profiling, New Jersey Argues New Jersey officials contend that the reason racial
profiling is a national problem is that it was
initiated, and in many ways encouraged, by the
federal government's war on drugs. In 1986, the
Drug Enforcement Administration's Operation
Pipeline enlisted police departments across the
country to search for narcotics traffickers on major
highways and told officers, to cite one example, that
Latinos and West Indians dominated the drug trade
and therefore warranted extra scrutiny.

Since then, the D.E.A. and the Department of
Transportation have financed and taught an array of
drug interdiction programs that emphasize the
ethnic and racial characteristics of narcotics
organizations and teach the police ways to single
out cars and drivers who are smuggling.

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