ABSTRACT
Charles drank his morning coffee as he skimmed the local newspaper headlines. “Racial Profiling by Local Police Targets Blacks” caught his eye. Community leaders had been meeting with the police chief for over a year on this issue. The article described a statewide study that found police in Charles’s community stopped Blacks at a significantly higher rate than Whites, but found contraband at a lower rate among Blacks than among Whites. “I wonder what they’re saying about this on the newspaper chat,” thought Charles. He clicked the chat link above the story.
