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When Racial Profiling Goes Wrong

Oh, NYPD. What are we going to do with you. Right on the heels of a racial profiling lawsuit from a NY Post reporter (although his paper doesn't believe racial profiling exists), the Sean Bell disaster, and a report questioning the racial imbalance of the police force's stop-and-search technique, two white, plain-clothes officers are in deep trouble after ordering an off-duty black officer, who happens to be the highest-ranking black officer in the NYPD, out of his car. Needless to say, they didn't recognize him.

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