The Arizona Department of Public Safety was successfully sued for racial profiling. A series of actions to stop the practices was part of a Court-approved settlement in 2006. (See http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/court-approves-settlement-aclu-lawsuit-end-racial-profiling-arizona-highways)

Racial profiling by police is widespread including in states with small numbers of minorities such as Minnesota. There police in suburban cities stopped Latinos 170 percent more times than would have corresponded to their proportion of the population. Blacks and American Indians in the state were also stopped considerably more often than whites. However, a better crime-prevention strategy would have been to stop whites since those stops yielded more drugs. Maryland and other states have shown similar patterns. (Connecting the Dots: Government, Communities and Families, p. 78. (Transaction Publishers. transactionpub.com) For more on diversity issues see chapter five “How Can We All Get Along?” and follow postings on my blog at connectingdots.us