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Police Developing Profiling Policies 
Posted by FoM on June 27, 2001 at 21:44:19 PT
By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post Staff Writer
Source: Washington Post 
A troubling self-portrait has emerged a year after hundreds of police agencies began investigating the use of racial profiling by their officers, and a growing number of departments are responding with policies to discourage harassment of innocent minority travelers.In Washington state, the highway patrol plans to use its data to question and discipline individual troopers whose records suggest racial profiling. The former chief also canceled awards for drug arrests, saying they may encourage troopers to use profiles instead of focusing on hazardous drivers, thus rewarding "the wrong kind of behavior."