Former President Clinton called for a national crackdown on racial profiling and ordered federal law enforcement authorities to launch an investigation. (1) Vice President Al Gore promised the NAACP that if he became president, eliminating the practice of racial profiling by police departments nationwide would be a top priority. (2) New Jersey Governor Christy Whitman fired Police Commissioner Carl Williams after the 35-year veteran said in an interview that minorities were more likely to be involved in drug trafficking. (3) In the case of State of New Jersey v. Pedro Soto, and. al., the black defendants' lawyer decided to suppress evidence of traffic stops considered discriminatory enforcement of traffic laws. (4) On March 4, 1996, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert E. Francis, in granting the motion, found that "unrefuted statistical evidence of disproportionate traffic stops against African-American motorists established de facto policy of targeting blacks for investigation and arrest and thus established selective enforcement in violation of equal protection and due process clauses. The motion to suppress the evidence resulted in the dismissal of criminal charges against all 19 defendants. (5) What is it generally used for? In other words, racial profiling is a process by which people use a physical characteristic that is inexpensive to observe, such as race, gender, height, weight, and accent, as a substitute for a more costly characteristic. to observe. meaning of the Latin root of the word - the act of pre-judging. Another way to define pre-judging is that it is the practice of making decisions based on incomplete information. paper......officially or de facto sanctioned policy of targeting minorities for investigation and arrest, any evidence seized will be suppressed to deter future insolence in power by those charged with enforcement of the law and to maintain judicial integrity. USCA Const. To modify. 14.6. The age-adjusted incidence of prostate cancer is higher in black men (142.0 per 100,000) than in white men (108.3 per 100,000).7. About 80,000 Americans have sickle cell disease. About 9% of black people have this trait, and it is estimated that 1 in 500 black people. One in 1,000 to 1,400 U.S. Hispanic children are born with sickle cell disease itself. The high incidence of the sickle cell gene in these and other specific populations is due to its ability to make red blood cells resistant to the malaria parasite.8. In this group, the incidence is 1 person in 2 500.