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Our police conduct research has received national media attention. Dr. Steward, the project leader, has been cited numerous times in national newspapers, television, and has served on numerous roundtables concerning police conduct.

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TEXAS RACIAL PROFILING STUDY RELEASED
Subscription - United Press International - HighBeam Research - Feb 3, 2004
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 03, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- A study of racial profiling in Texas has found that six of every seven law ...
Race a Factor in Texas Stops; Study Finds Police More Likely to Pull...
Subscription - Washington Post - HighBeam Research - Feb 25, 2005
The head of a research center on racial profiling said the Texas data reflect national trends, but he warned against making broad conclusions from ...
Studies Find Race Disparities in Texas Traffic Stops
New York Times - Oct 7, 2000
Black and Hispanic motorists across Texas are more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to be ... "This is a clear indication of racial profiling. ...
Texas minorities more likely to be stopped than whites, study says.
Free with registration - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jan 1, 2007
AUSTIN, Texas _ More than two years after Texas outlawed racial profiling by police agencies, blacks and Hispanics are far more likely to be the targets of ...
Minority motorists: Targets without cause
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Mar 8, 2001
The newspaper asked Dwight Steward, an economics professor and statistician at the University of Texas, to analyze 491000 traffic tickets and 441000 warning ...
DPS figures show racial disparity Minority motorists searched most,...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 24, 2001
The numbers indicate most starkly that Hispanics, while the most likely to be searched, are the least likely to be arrested, said Dr. Dwight Steward, ...
Activists slam cops' race study Groups say results of profiling...
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Jan 17, 2004
It's an insult for what it reveals and misleading for what it covers up, Dwight Steward, a former University of Texas professor of economics, said. ...
Texas troopers search black, Hispanic drivers at double rate of...
Free with registration - Dallas Morning News - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jan 1, 2007
The numbers indicate most starkly that Hispanics, while the most likely to be searched, are the least likely to be arrested, said Dwight Steward, ...
DPS search rate higher for minorities
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 2, 2001
University of Texas economics professor and statistician Dwight Steward analyzed the tickets and warning citations at the request of The News. ...
SA, Heights data show racial divide
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Feb 18, 2006
In Alamo Heights, that (number) just really screams out, said Dwight Steward, an Austin researcher who conducted the study of 2004 data. ...
Bill seeks racial quotas for juries
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Mar 15, 2003
Dwight Steward, an economist who completed the first study on police racial profiling in Texas, said Deshotel's bill would be relatively inexpensive to ...
Racial profiling report criticized But researcher defends findings...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Feb 8, 2004
The data isn't flawed, said Dwight Steward, the University of Texas economics professor who was the principal researcher. He said his statistics came from ...
Profiling Racial Profiling
Austin Chronicle - Mar 21, 2003
There is cause for concern, said economist Dwight Steward, a former UT professor who worked on a racial-profiling report compiled last year by the Texas ...
Midland Reporter-Telegram
$2.95 - Midland Reporter-Telegram - NewsBank - Feb 22, 2006
It's completely at the discretion of the officers at that point," said Dwight Steward, an Austin researcher whose firm conducted the study for the coalition ...
Racial Profiling Data Illuminating, yet Inconclusive
Austin Chronicle - Mar 11, 2005
The analysis, conducted by Austin-based consultant Dwight Steward and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition on behalf of the TCJC and the state chapters of ...
Texas troopers search black, Hispanic drivers at double rate of...
Free with registration - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jan 1, 2007
The numbers indicate most starkly that Hispanics, while the most likely to be searched, are the least likely to be arrested, said Dwight Steward, ...
Austin police search fewer cars
Daily Texan - Mar 4, 2005
Dwight Steward, author of a report analyzing Texas-wide racial profiling statistics released last month, praised the reduction. ...
Economics professors contribute to racial profiling report
Houstonian Online (subscription) - Feb 12, 2004
Dwight Steward was the principal author of the study and was contacted by the NAACP and ACLU to compile a team of people from the Texas Criminal Justice ...
Searches of minorities more likely; varied reporting cited
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Feb 25, 2005
Is it because of racial profiling? Is it because of legitimate law enforcement practices? Since 2002, police agencies in Texas have been required to ...
Race disparity seen in traffic stops - Study: In Texas, minority...
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Feb 4, 2004
James McLaughlin, executive director of the Texas Police Chiefs Association, said he doesn't think most officers engage in racial profiling, ...
NAACP tackles profiling issue
$2.95 - Daily Sentinel - NewsBank - Mar 30, 2005
Kelly said the report, which is compiled largely by Dwight Steward of the ... "And I'm really impressed with Dwight (Steward) and people he works with, ...
DPS tells governor race not a factor in treatment of drivers Minoritie...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Oct 5, 2000
In its study of the DPS information, The News consulted University of Texas economics professor Dwight Steward. Focusing on March data alone, ...
Profiling study hits SA, Bexar But local officials dispute findings,...
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Feb 4, 2004
With search rates that are that far out of line, it's something people should definitely be concerned about, said Dwight Steward, the Austin researcher ...
Groups push for an end to voluntary car searches
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Feb 25, 2005
What we've found is a pretty strong pattern that's consistent with racial profiling, said Dwight Steward, an Austin researcher who conducted the study of ...
Study disputes profiling Independent group says UP police don't...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Jun 23, 2004
Dr. Dwight Steward, founder and principal of The Steward Group, said that he isn't familiar with the committee's numbers but that he stands by his group's ...
Race a Factor in Texas Stops
Washington Post - Feb 25, 2005
The head of a research center on racial profiling said the Texas data reflect national trends, but he warned against making broad conclusions from raw ...
Racial profiling bill clears Senate Police cars in Texas would come...
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Apr 5, 2001
Senate Bill 1074 requires law enforcement agencies to devise training programs, to compile statistics about the race and ethnicity of people pulled over ...
Race a Factor in Texas Stops; Study Finds Police More Likely to Pull...
Subscription - Washington Post - HighBeam Research - Feb 25, 2005
The head of a research center on racial profiling said the Texas data reflect national trends, but he warned against making broad conclusions from ...
Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Texas/Southwest
Dallas Morning News - Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Feb 18, 2006
The results came four years after Texas banned racial profiling by police. Activists say the data stands as proof that the state still has a long way to ...
Studies Find Race Disparities in Texas Traffic Stops
New York Times - Oct 7, 2000
Black and Hispanic motorists across Texas are more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to be ... "This is a clear indication of racial profiling. ...
Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Breaking News for...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Feb 22, 2006
I don't know how to draw conclusions from the [racial profiling] data, said Police Chief David Kunkle, who along with two University of North Texas ...
Police-search statistics don't lie, but statisticians can
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Feb 22, 2004
But the truth is, we still don't know if racial profiling is a big problem in Texas. That's because the study, titled "Racial Profiling: Texas Traffic Stops ...
Texas Overhauls Criminal Defense
Wired News - Jun 14, 2001
Under the racial profiling law, all Texas law enforcement agencies are required to have a written policy that prohibits the stopping of suspects based on ...
Racial profiling in Texas The Dallas Morning News
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Oct 15, 2000
I have been watching a recent trend by spinmeisters to claim racial profiling by law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, such a practice may be somewhat ...
Traffic stop data hint at racial bias - Austin police numbers show...
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Mar 16, 2003
Texas is not unique in trying to examine whether, and if so to what extent, police engage in racial profiling. Law enforcement agencies across the nation ...
… profiling reporting UNT research may help police agencies...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 6, 2005
The author of Texas' racial profiling law says a new study may help ... But researchers of another well-known racial profiling report in Texas said that ...
Texas Overhauls Criminal Defense
Wired News - Jun 14, 2001
Under the racial profiling law, all Texas law enforcement agencies are required to have a written policy that prohibits the stopping of suspects based on ...
Revised law on profiling offered
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - Mar 12, 2005
After three years of studying racial profiling data in Texas, there's little consensus about what the information means. ...
Anti-profiling effort found lagging
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - Jan 24, 2002
Most Texas police agencies are taking the steps needed to comply with the new state law prohibiting racial profiling, but Fort Worth should be more ...
Police fear suggestion of profiling
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - Jun 26, 2002
It's part of a struggle among police departments in the region to meet the requirements of a new state law intended to weed out racial profiling by Texas ...
Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Breaking News for...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Mar 15, 2006
The statistics don't indicate racial profiling, police say. ... But racial profiling is an issue in Irving, minority group leaders say. ...
Data show unequal searching by race - Central Texas officers searched...
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Mar 6, 2004
The Austin American-Statesman reviewed racial profiling reports from police departments in several Central Texas jurisdictions, including Austin, ...
Racial profiling
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Jul 12, 1999
But the absence of any official statistics has made it difficult to track the prevalence of racial profiling. In Texas, for example, the Department of ...
Bill may require police car videos A measure mandating racial...
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - May 29, 2001
The bill also requires each police agency to develop a process for citizen complaints on racial profiling. "It is helpful seeing Texas taking an affirmative ...
Racial profiling discussed Dallas police unsure of problem's...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Dec 27, 2000
Royce West, D-Dallas, is drafting a bill for the 2001 Texas Legislature to combat racial profiling. He says the only way to determine whether there's a ...
… more often Views differ on whether traffic stop data signal...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - May 4, 2002
Since the Texas Legislature enacted the racial profiling law last year, the primary question among police officials, researchers and community leaders is ...
House, Senate bills aim to ban racial profiling
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Mar 6, 2001
Legislation to ban Texas law officers from using racial profiling to enforce the law was filed Monday in the Texas Senate and House with backing from major ...
Profiling statistics disputed Police chiefs say blacks, Hispanics not...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Feb 20, 2004
Local police officials are questioning the Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition's report on racial profiling, which shows that, compared with Anglo ...
Law agencies discuss how to sift racial profiling dataB - Officials...
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Feb 3, 2003
But the main focus of the conference and the law is making sure that racial profiling is eliminated in Texas all together. ...
Groups ask SAPD to keep racial profiling statistics
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Oct 19, 2000
The report, which hinted that the 77th Texas Legislature may take up the issue of racial profiling in its next session, says nine states have enacted laws ...
Will it be 'point of contact' or 'point of conflict'?
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - Sep 17, 2006
A report by the Steward Research Group in 2004, "Racial Profiling: Texas Traffic Stops and Searches," found that six out of seven law enforcement agencies ...
Racial profiling records withheld 70 agencies have yet to respond to...
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Jul 15, 2004
Seventy law enforcement agencies, almost a quarter of them in South Texas, have violated state law by refusing to supply racial profiling data in compliance ...
Racial profiling ban takes effect NAACP leader touts state law on...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Jan 1, 2002
In Caney City in East Texas, Police Chief Charles Reno said his officers ... "Is it going to stop racial profiling? No. Will it cause it to cut back some? ...
It's time to solve racial profiling problem
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Feb 4, 2004
It is easy to jump to conclusions about why, but that would be conjecture, note the authors and editors of "Racial Profiling: Texas Traffic Stops and ...
Congress urged to ban profiling Race-based practice has increased...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Sep 14, 2004
Texas passed a racial profiling law in 2001, but the study said 28 states haven't. And most states, including Texas, don't ban profiling based upon religion ...
New law to tackle racial profiling Upgraded legal aid for poor also...
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Jun 15, 2001
Perry said racial profiling is "unacceptable in Texas. Senate Bill 1074 clearly affirms that belief and takes steps to ensure no Texan will be subject to ...
NAACP tackles profiling issue
$2.95 - Daily Sentinel - NewsBank - Mar 30, 2005
Kelly said the report, which is compiled largely by Dwight Steward of the ... "And I'm really impressed with Dwight (Steward) and people he works with, ...
Study disputes profiling Independent group says UP police don't...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Jun 23, 2004
Dr. Dwight Steward, founder and principal of The Steward Group, said that he isn't familiar with the committee's numbers but that he stands by his group's ...
Minority motorists: Targets without cause
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Mar 8, 2001
The newspaper asked Dwight Steward, an economics professor and statistician at the University of Texas, to analyze 491000 traffic tickets and 441000 warning ...
Texas troopers search black, Hispanic drivers at double rate of...
Free with registration - Dallas Morning News - AccessMyLibrary.com - Mar 25, 2001
The numbers indicate most starkly that Hispanics, while the most likely to be searched, are the least likely to be arrested, said Dwight Steward, ...
Activists slam cops' race study Groups say results of profiling...
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Jan 17, 2004
It's an insult for what it reveals and misleading for what it covers up, Dwight Steward, a former University of Texas professor of economics, said. ...
DPS search rate higher for minorities
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 2, 2001
University of Texas economics professor and statistician Dwight Steward analyzed the tickets and warning citations at the request of The News. ...
SA, Heights data show racial divide
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Feb 18, 2006
In Alamo Heights, that (number) just really screams out, said Dwight Steward, an Austin researcher who conducted the study of 2004 data. ...
Bill seeks racial quotas for juries
$2.95 - San Antonio Express-News - NewsBank - Mar 15, 2003
Dwight Steward, an economist who completed the first study on police racial profiling in Texas, said Deshotel's bill would be relatively inexpensive to ...
Racial profiling report criticized But researcher defends findings...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Feb 8, 2004
The data isn't flawed, said Dwight Steward, the University of Texas economics professor who was the principal researcher. He said his statistics came from ...
Profiling Racial Profiling
Austin Chronicle - Mar 21, 2003
There is cause for concern, said economist Dwight Steward, a former UT professor who worked on a racial-profiling report compiled last year by the Texas ...
Midland Reporter-Telegram
$2.95 - Midland Reporter-Telegram - NewsBank - Feb 22, 2006
It's completely at the discretion of the officers at that point," said Dwight Steward, an Austin researcher whose firm conducted the study for the coalition ...
Austin Chronicle: Print an Article
Austin Chronicle - Mar 11, 2005
The analysis, conducted by Austin-based consultant Dwight Steward and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition on behalf of the TCJC and the state chapters of ...
Report: Race a factor in traffic stops, searches
Amarillo.com - Amarillo.com (subscription) - Feb 4, 2004
Dwight Steward, principal economist with Steward Research Group that conducted the study, said the 413 agencies included represent the nearly 600 out of ...
Economics professors contribute to racial profiling report
Houstonian Online (subscription) - Feb 12, 2004
Dwight Steward was the principal author of the study and was contacted by the NAACP and ACLU to compile a team of people from the Texas Criminal Justice ...
Study in Texas Sees Race Bias in Searches
New York Times - Feb 25, 2005
The study was conducted with the help of an Austin consultant, the Steward Research Group, and was issued Thursday in Austin by the Texas Criminal Justice ...
Study Says Police More Likely to Stop Minorities; Black and Latino...
Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Feb 4, 2004
The study -- conducted by the Steward Research Group and headed by a professor at the University of Texas at Austin -- was commissioned by the American ...
Revised law on profiling offered
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - Mar 12, 2005
They are saying that only the worst offenders are subject to further study, said Amy Raub, a senior analyst with the Steward Research Group in Austin, ...
Law agencies discuss how to sift racial profiling dataB - Officials...
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Feb 3, 2003
In a statewide study of data collected in the first year of the law, the Steward Research Group of Austin found that African Americans were searched two ...
Profiling statistics disputed Police chiefs say blacks, Hispanics not...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Feb 20, 2004
Released earlier this month, the report was compiled by the Steward Research Group for the Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, the ACLU of Texas, ...
Will it be 'point of contact' or 'point of conflict'?
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - Sep 17, 2006
A report by the Steward Research Group in 2004, "Racial Profiling: Texas Traffic Stops and Searches," found that six out of seven law enforcement agencies ...
Flaws seen in profiling reporting UNT research may help police...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 6, 2005
... that by doing this, only the worst offenders are going to be subject to further study," said Amy Raub, a senior analyst for the Steward Research Group. ...
Police group's ads asking for support
Daily Texan - Feb 6, 2004
Numbers in a study released Tuesday by the Steward Research Group and numbers from the Statesman series concluded that minorities are more likely to ...
Search gap is shown in HP Chief defends policies, says ethnicity...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 3, 2005
... less than a week after the release of a study by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and the Steward Research Group that found black and Hispanic ...
Is there a profile in the local police portrait?
$2.95 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - NewsBank - Feb 15, 2004
Govea points out that a racial profiling study released this month by the Steward Research Group reveals that Fort Worth police stop blacks two times and ...
Study finds disparity in searches Police defend practices; analyst...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 13, 2005
Richardson has a fairly low search rate compared with the rest of the state, said Amy Raub, senior analyst for the Steward Research Group, which prepared ...
Civil rights groups plan discussion of racial profiling, strategies...
Pay-Per-View - Beaumont Enterprise - NewsBank - Feb 28, 2004
The Steward Research Group, on behalf of the Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, NAACP of Texas and Texas ...
Blacks And Latinos More Likely To Be Searched By Police In Texas,...
KWTX - Feb 25, 2005
The study, conducted by Steward Research Group, was commissioned by the ACLU of Texas, the NAACP of Texas, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and the ...
Session shares information, stories on racial profiling
Pay-Per-View - Beaumont Enterprise - NewsBank - Mar 3, 2004
It also is more likely that their vehicles subsequently will be searched, according to a study conducted by the Steward Research Group. ...
Police deny racial profiling
Brazosport Facts - Brazosport Facts (subscription) - Feb 5, 2004
The report, prepared by Steward Research Group, is based on data collected about the race of people stopped and searched by police in 2002, the most recent ...
Analysis: Texas searches get scrutiny.
Free with registration - UPI Perspectives - AccessMyLibrary.com - Mar 14, 2005
Steward Research Group compiled the study for the ACLU of Texas, NAACP of Texas, the League of United Latin American Citizens of Texas and the Texas ...
Austin Chronicle: Print an Article
Austin Chronicle - Mar 18, 2005
A statewide review of data from more than 1000 law enforcement agencies conducted by Austin-based Steward Research Group revealed that three out of five law ...
Local leaders ask for consent-search ban
Daily Texan - Feb 5, 2004
... of United Latin American Citizens held the conference in response to a racial profiling report released Tuesday by the Steward Research Group Inc. ...
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
wfaa.com - Nov 7, 2005
The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and the Steward Research Group had just released a study that found black and Hispanic residents were more than three ...
Report: Race a factor in traffic stops, searches
Amarillo.com - Amarillo.com (subscription) - Feb 4, 2004
Dwight Steward, principal economist with Steward Research Group that conducted the study, said the 413 agencies included represent the nearly 600 out of ...
Town Meeting Held Over Racial Profiling
KTRE - Mar 28, 2004
The latest report, published by Steward Research Group, says that blacks are 1.5 times more likely to be searched by Nacogdoches law enforcement than whites ...
York Dispatch, The (PA)
$2.95 - York Dispatch - NewsBank - Feb 25, 2005
The report conducted by Steward Research Group was commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, NAACP Texas, the Texas Criminal Justice ...
Report: Minorities searched more often
Brazosport Facts - Brazosport Facts (subscription) - Feb 26, 2005
... Citizens and the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches commissioned the report, which was compiled and analyzed by the Steward Research Group. ...
Policía detienen más a latinos y afronorteamericanos
People's Weekly World - Mar 3, 2005
El estudio hecho por Steward Research Group para la Coalición sobre Justicia Criminal de Tejas, la Asociación Nacional para el Avance de Gente de Color, ...
Study disputes profiling Independent group says UP police don't...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Jun 23, 2004
The earlier study, compiled by The Steward Group, also indicated that University Park ... Dr. Dwight Steward, founder and principal of The Steward Group, ...
Racial profiling report's usefulness under scrutiny Data show...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 16, 2003
... slightly more often than any other race while issuing citations or making arrests in 2002, according to the department's first racial profiling report. ...
Police chief questions results of racial profiling report.
Free with registration - Odessa American - AccessMyLibrary.com - Apr 3, 2007
Apr. 3--As Odessa Police Chief Chris Pipes read over a recently released Texas Criminal Justice Coalition report regarding racial profiling by the Odessa ...
Profiling report details searches Police, expert say there's not...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 7, 2004
Blacks and Hispanics were almost twice as likely as whites to be searched during traffic stops in Grand Prairie in 2003, according to the Grand Prairie ...
Racial Profiling Report needs better police cooperation
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Feb 11, 2004
Sen. Royce West of Dallas has every reason to be upset that law enforcement agencies sworn to uphold the law aren't following it themselves. ...
Dallas Morning News, The : DALLAS' RACIAL-PROFILING REPORT
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 4, 2003
Dallas Morning News, The : Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, ...
Bush Administration Buries Negative Racial Profiling Report
BuzzFlash - Aug 25, 2005
Washington, DC -- The New York Times reported today that the Bush Administration demoted the head of the Bureau of Justice Statistics after he refused to ...
NPD chief, NAACP head shrug off racial profiling report
$2.95 - Daily Sentinel - NewsBank - Apr 26, 2007
An independent study that said blacks were 40 percent more likely than whites to be searched when stopped by Nacogdoches police in 2005, doesn't worry ...
Economics professors contribute to racial profiling report
Houstonian Online (subscription) - Feb 12, 2004
A preliminary report about racial profiling recently completed by a team in Texas included three SHSU economic professors, Edward Blackburne, Douglas Berg ...
City holds close to police racial profiling report
$2.95 - Midland Reporter-Telegram - NewsBank - Mar 17, 2003
Officials at the Midland Police Department and City Hall are holding tight to the first state-mandated racial profiling report nearly three weeks after the ...
Police department disputes ACLU's racial profiling report
$2.95 - Midland Reporter-Telegram - NewsBank - Jan 24, 2002
By D. Lance Lunsford. The American Civil Liberties Union has given the Midland Police Department an "F" when it comes to racial profiling, but Police Chief ...
DALLAS' 2003 RACIAL PROFILING REPORT
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 2, 2004
Here's a look at what the Dallas Police Department is reporting to meet requirements of the Texas racial profiling law. The information is not audited by an ...
APD report focuses on racial profile of traffic offenders
Amarillo.com - Amarillo.com (subscription) - Mar 5, 2003
Since this is Amarillo's first racial profiling report, Neal said it's too soon to tell how these figures can be measured. ...
Nacogdoches Police Dept. Comments On Racial Profiling Report
KTRE - Feb 4, 2004
The Nacogdoches Police Department is taking issue with a new report on racial profiling has just been released. The report says that blacks are ...
Race gap exists in searches Police say traffic-stop data show no...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 6, 2003
Ollie Dailey, president of NAACP Branch 6260 in Grand Prairie, said he had not seen the racial profiling report. But he said he is concerned about the ...
Report shows racial disparity in traffic stops
$2.95 - Midland Reporter-Telegram - NewsBank - Jan 28, 2004
The Midland Police Department's racial profiling report should be presented sometime near the beginning of March, said Tina Jauz, MPD public information ...
Report: Race plays a role in police searches
Pay-Per-View - Beaumont Enterprise - NewsBank - Feb 18, 2006
... over and subjected to discretionary searches by some Southeast Texas law enforcement agencies, according to a racial profiling report released Friday. ...
Study finds disparity in searches Police defend practices; analyst...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 13, 2005
The findings are significant because a racial profiling report examining 2002 ... In the Richardson Police Department's Racial Profiling Report for 2004 ...
Report: Blacks pulled over at higher rate Group only one in city...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 13, 2003
The Mesquite Police Department plans to more closely record and analyze its traffic stops after the city's first racial profiling report showed that black ...
Flaws seen in profiling reporting UNT research may help police...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 6, 2005
But researchers of another well-known racial profiling report in Texas said that comparing departments with one another would imply that a certain amount of ...
Report looks for race bias Police deny profiling; some groups say...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 24, 2004
Russ Kerbow, who prepared the department's racial profiling report. "We think it's [the data] saying ... our officers do a good job of trying to be fair and ...
Blacks, Hispanics subjected to more traffic-stop searches Dallas...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 4, 2003
Blacks and Hispanics were more likely to be searched during traffic stops than whites in Dallas, according to the first racial-profiling report compiled by ...
… data Chief says he sees no signs of racial profiling Report...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - May 17, 2001
Newly released data show that Arlington police stopped black motorists disproportionately in 23 of 25 patrol beats throughout the city. ...
It's time to solve racial profiling problem
Pay-Per-View - Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Feb 4, 2004
The statewide data reported by police agencies studied for the racial profiling report released Tuesday show some similarities between the frequency of ...
Traffic data show race gap Police say several variables make compariso...
$2.95 - Dallas Morning News - NewsBank - Mar 21, 2003
More black drivers were arrested or searched by police during traffic stops in every southwest Dallas County city than other racial groups, ...
Report: Blacks and Hispanics more likely to be pulled over by officers
$2.95 - Midland Reporter-Telegram - NewsBank - Feb 25, 2004
... are more likely to be stopped and searched by Midland Police Department officers, according to data in the Department's 2003 racial profiling report. ...
Profiling Racial Profiling
Austin Chronicle - Mar 21, 2003
BY JORDAN SMITH. On Feb. 28, the Austin Police Dept. released its first report on "racial profiling," as required under a 2001 state law. ...
University Park Study
Wednesday June 23, 2004 9:23 a.m. By KRISTEN HOLLAND / The Dallas Morning News
Study disputes profiling Independent group says UP police don't do it, contradicting report….
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=60846_0_10_0_C
By David Robledo, The Brownsville Herald
State patrol searches minority drivers more frequently than whites/ Study: Stats dropping, but racial profiling still problem for state agency, studies show
Our Experience
Three out of four police departments in Texas searched African-American and Hispanic motorists at a rate that was higher than statistically expected from the population of motorists who were stopped...the disparity was not explained by the contraband found in the searched
Press Conference - State Capitol
Release of Steward Report on Racial Profiling

A police department's stop rate can be out of whack with the census data...that is not necessarily statistical evidence of police racial profiling...
Dr. Steward comments concerning Maryland Police
Baltimore Sun