Reader Response

February, 1995

ProfilesKudos to Playboy for James Bovard's piece exposing police use of race-based drug-courier profiles to skirt the Fourth Amendment ("Drug-Courier Profiles," The Playboy Forum, November). As an ACLU attorney representing several "clean-living" African American motorists targeted and hassled by police solely because of their race, I am outraged at police use of profiles and other official abuses perpetrated under the auspices of the war on drugs. The assumption underlying...

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