Well why should there be? It's not like the government keeps anally precise racial stats on every other aspect of life, is it?
“Well why should there be? It’s not like the government keeps anally precise racial stats on every other aspect of life, is it?”
Many states have been forced to keep track of race in traffic stops and DUI arrests because of lawsuits by groups like the ACLU and NAACP. The stat tracking is to prevent “racial profiling” traffic stops and arrests and searches.
So yes, there is a reason.
Look here too.
http://www.riaclu.org/20051114.html
http://web.wtnh.com/Report_Narrative.pdf
http://ovc.gov/bjs/abstract/tsdcp01.htm
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:S.821:
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