The Dallas Police Department had some outside experts look at its records to see if officers are racial profiling during traffic stops or when using force. The review indicates that by and large that they are not.
The Dallas Police Department had some outside experts look at its records to see if officers are racial profiling during traffic stops or when using force.The two experts gave the Dallas Police Department positive reviews after Chief Eddie Garcia turned over the department's data, telling council members that you can't know what's wrong until you study yourself.
And while there have been national headlines about studies on people killed after traffic, Scales says that is not the whole story. Chief Garcia also recently asked renowned criminologist Dr. Alex Del Carmen to study the department's traffic stops for any evidence of racial profiling.
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