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This article deals with the cause of driving while black which black people living in Evergreen Park refer to as blatant racial profiling. Evergreen Park is a neighborhood in Chicago’s Southwest Side. I believe that it’s ethically wrong to pull over more minority drivers than white drivers. If officers are going to pull over minorities they should do similar with white drivers. According to Cherry Tops and Minority Stops,
“But the suburb’s widening gulf between the number of white and minority traffic stops is troubling to some civil rights experts and is drawing attention to police practices. Such frequent stops also raise questions that the suburb is seeking to boost revenues by targeting and imposing fines on minority drivers” (Schroedter
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