Number	21484
Subject	Racial Profiling
Source	NBC News Dateline
State	NY
Year	2004
Publication Date	April 9
Summary	This fourteen month investigation into racial profiling began with the 2001 death of Timothy Thomas, an African - American teenager in Cincinnati. Thomas had fourteen police warrants before he was killed, all of which stemmed from unpaid traffic tickets for non-moving violations. These sorts of violations are often used as a pretext for seeing if suspicious motorists have drugs or guns. In nearly every city Dateline looked at, blacks were stopped or ticketed for non-moving violations at least twice as often as whites.
Category	Contest Certificate
Pages	35
Keywords	racism;profiling;traffic tickets;police corruption
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