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New Jersey held hearings concerning racial profiling in which one state police investigator testified that 94% of the motorists stopped were minorities (Anderson Pp). Not only were minorities more likely to be stopped than whites, but more often than not are pressured to allow searches of their vehicles, and are more likely to allow such searches (Anderson Pp). In March 2001, the New York Times reported that a 1997 investigation by New Jersey police of their own practices found that "turnpike drivers who agreed to have their cars searched by the state police were overwhelmingly black and Hispanic" (Anderson Pp).

Although African-Americans and Hispanics have been the targeted victims of racial profiling, since the September 11th attacks, Arab-Americans and visitors from Middle Eastern countries also find themselves the target of racial profiling due to their ethnicity and the global profile of terrorists (Barnes Pp). Many believe that racial profiling is an appropriate tool for the war on terrorism and polls indicate a strong majority favor "subjecting those of Arab decent to extra scrutiny at airports" (Lund Pp). Surprisingly, polls showed that "blacks and Arab-Americans ere even more likely than whites to favor such policies" (Lund Pp).

Nelson Lund states that "government policies that entail racial profiling should be treated with the greatest skepticism" because they threaten the legitimate interests of various racial groups, and tend to distract government agencies from alternative policies that are likely to work at least as well (Lund Pp).

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And more importantly, "it threatens to undermine the important national goal of making all races equal under the law" (Lund Pp). That blacks commit robbery at much higher rates than whites do is a statistical or probabalistic sense, and it is also true that most blacks are not robbers and that almost half of all robbers are white (Lund Pp).

Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder. There is no apparent justification for detaining persons based merely on their race or ethnicity, however "driving while black" has become all too common place (Lund Pp).

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