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New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer Jr. said that as part of the investigation into the World Trade Center attacks, police may have to stop, question and scrutinize New Jerseyans who look Middle Eastern, solely because of their ethnicity.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/in...x.ssf?/page1/ledger/1481032.html

Columnist Abdullah Al-Arian discusses being invited to and then removed from a White House briefing during the summer.
http://www.uwire.com/content/topops092701003.html

Stuart Taylor Jr.'s weekly column on legal affairs addresses racial profiling in light of the recent terrorist attacks.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-09-25.htm

The responses of Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), to readers questions and comments about racial profiling and racial bias during times of war.
http://discuss.washingtonpost.co...orum/01/attack_yzaguirre0925.htm

An article by Gene Callahan and William Anderson about the practice, the investigative shift from case probability to class probability, and the role of asset forfeiture.
http://www.reason.com/0108/fe.gc.the.html

Heather MacDonald says there's no credible evidence that racial profiling exists, yet the crusade to abolish it threatens a decade's worth of crime-fighting success.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_2_the_myth.html

The full set of racial profiling documents released by the New Jersey Attorney General's office on Monday, November 27th, 2000. Links to related news and articles.
http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/njprofiling/

Perspective on profiling, identification of the problem, prohibition, and analysis of ethnicity and race data.
http://www.fhp.state.fl.us/html/census/profile.html

A lawyer's collection of recently released documents [PDF format], materials on profiling challenges, and links.
http://whbuckman.com/profiling/profiling.html

An article by Peter Noel about incidents in New York City and including a survery and interviews of police officers.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0011/noel.php

James Forman Jr. presents the conservative case against profiling.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/091001/forman091001.html

Summaries of news, documents, and links.
http://www.csdp.org/news/news/profiling.htm

Why racial profiling isn't a black and white problem by John Cloud, with viewpoint by Shelby Steele and photo essay by James Nachtwey.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010730/

Transcript of the Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, Heather MacDonald, Paul Butler, and David Cole. Includes biographies of guests and discussion forum.
http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript967.html

American Civil Liberties Union page on racial profiling and "driving while Black".
http://www.aclu.org/profiling/

Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer signs a resolution taking a stance against the practice of racial profiling.
http://www.state.wy.us/governor/...eases/2001/july_2001/racial.html

Current media coverage of the controversial practice.
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/US/Racial_Profiling

An examination of the catchall phrase now used to describe many different forms of racism that have been practiced throughout history.
http://inthefray.com/200105/identify/analysis2/analysis2.html

Five Arab-American Boy Scout leader trainees from Dearborn, Michigan, and their adult leader were detained while the FBI ran background checks on them.
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/terror2001/scout13_20011013.htm

Working with state and local governments, law enforcement agencies and civil rights groups to assess and deter racial profiling practices.
http://www.lamberthconsulting.com

Includes an article by a police officer on the topic.
http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy101001.shtml

Understanding what racial profiling against African, Hispanic, and Asian Americans is, and what can be done about it. Also includes latest news reports, research reports, and links to organizations that provide assistance.
http://www.ethnicmajority.com/racial_profiling.htm

Includes commentary on how terrorism affects the debate.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20011010.html

Fred Reed discusses types of profiling, concluding that racial profiling is not discrimination.
http://www.fredoneverything.net/yyProfiles.shtml

Racial Profiling at California State Fair targets 'Black Culture Day' fairgoers, creating an air of inequality and unfair treatment.
http://www.geocities.com/california_state_unfair2002/

Michael Kinsley discusses the discrimination people are afraid to be against.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=116347