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An anachronistic debate over 'racial profiling' data

While I was busy on Tuesday at a House Criminal Jurisprudence subcommittee meeting and then watching the House Human Services Committee discuss the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup, the Senate Criminal Justice Committee was hearing a bill that I've long supported - SB 1120 by Royce West - creating a central repository of so-called "racial profiling" data generated by law enforcement officers at Texas traffic stops.Listening to the hearing this afternoon (video is here, starting at the 35:45 mark), I was surprised how this has become a veritable cause celebre for the police unions. They attacked it like a beachfront they were storming. My old pals Charley Wilkinson of CLEAT, Tom Gaylor of TMPA, and Mark Clark of the Houston Police Officers Union all lined up one after another to rail against the bill...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).