Kaufman County DPS Racial Profiling Statistics
RACIAL PROFILING PROHIBITED. A peace officer may not engage in racial profiling.-Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 2.131
This begs the question- What is racial profiling?
From the Code of Criminal Procedure-
law enforcement-initiated action based on an individual's race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on the individual's behavior or on information identifying the individual as having engaged in criminal activity.
Texas racial profiling law also requires each law enforcement agency to keep statistics for each officer. The number of arrests, searches, tickets, and warnings are broken down by the race of the suspect. It is then up to the public to examine this information to discover any possible profiling.
Here are the RP stats for Kaufman County DPS troopers.
How To Order Racial Profiling Stats For Your County
Very simple process. Just send an email to pio@txdps.state.tx.us, and request racial profiling statistics for all officers in your county. The information comes in excel, so you shouldn't have to pay anything.
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Comments
what's your point?
Posted by: dixon | June 10, 2008 3:05 PM
Education basically, here is the law, and here are the numbers, and here is how to order them for your own county.
Posted by: Robert Guest | June 10, 2008 3:25 PM
Link to get this for other counties? that would be more "educational" than the google spreadsheet, imho... and thanks...
Posted by: Droopydave | June 10, 2008 3:27 PM
Good point Droopy, I added the information.
Thanks for reading.
RG
Posted by: Robert Guest | June 10, 2008 3:31 PM
I may have to try this. When you email DPS, did you have to request each Trooper by name, or did you just ask for the data on all the troopers in the county?
Posted by: Bad Court Thingy | June 10, 2008 9:14 PM
I asked for all the troopers in the county. You can ask for a specific trooper.
Posted by: robert guest | June 10, 2008 9:26 PM