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Friday, December 01, 2006

Response to UCLA Taser and racial profiling allegations

Are the allegations of racial profiling against the UCLA university police unique to UCLA? Not according to some. To some, the data is suggestive of a larger and bigger problem.

The table below shows the relative search rates for African-Americans and Latinos at some Texas universities in 2004. It shows the times more likely an African-American (B) or Latino (L) is to be searched by the universities police than a White person. For instance, B: 1.5 means that an African-American is 1.5 times more likely than a White person to be searched. >3 means the search rate was more than 3 times more likely.

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Texas A&M University -- Commerce, University Police Department B: 1.5 L: >3
Texas A&M University at Galveston Police Department B: >3 L: >3
University of Houston Police Department B:2.9 L:>3
University of Texas of the Permian Basin Police Department B: 2.2 L:>3
Eastfield College Police Department B: >3 L:>3
Brookhaven College Police Department B: 2.7 L:>3

Source: Police department racial profiling reports and the Texas campaign to end police racial profiling

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