Former President Clinton called for a national crackdown on racial profiling and ordered federal law enforcement to launch an investigation. (1) Vice President Al Gore promised the NAACP that if he became president, eliminating the practice of racial profiling by the nation's police departments would be a top priority. (2) New Jersey Governor Christy Whitman fired Police Superintendent Carl Williams after the 35-year veteran soldier said in an interview that minorities are more likely to be involved in drug trafficking. (3)In State of New Jersey v. Pedro Soto, et. al., the attorney for the black defendants moved to suppress evidence of traffic stops deemed a discriminatory enforcement of traffic laws. (4) On March 4, 1996, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert E. Francis, in granting the motion, argued that "irrefutable statistical evidence of disproportionate traffic stops against African-American motorists established a de facto policy of targeting blacks for investigation and investigation.” arrest and then selective execution in violation of the equal protection and due process clauses. The motion to suppress evidence led to the dismissal of criminal charges against all 19 defendants. (5) What is the broader purpose? Simply put, racial profiling is a process by which people use an inexpensive-to-observe physical characteristic, such as race, gender, height, weight, and accent, as a proxy for a more expensive-to-observe characteristic in the Latin root sense of the word - the act of pre-judging Another way to define pre-judging is that it is the practice of making decisions based on incomplete information. Since the acquisition of i...... half of. paper ... officially sanctioned or de facto policy of targeting minorities for investigation and arrest, any evidence seized will be suppressed to discourage future insolence in office by those charged with law enforcement and to maintain judicial integrity. USCA Const. Amend. 14.6. The age-adjusted incidence of prostate cancer is higher in black males (142.0 per 100,000) than in white males (108.3 per 100,000).7. Approximately 80,000 Americans suffer from sickle cell anemia. About 9% of blacks have this trait and it is estimated that one in 500 blacks. One in 1,000 to 1,400 American Hispanic children is born with sickle cell anemia. The high incidence of the sickle cell gene in these and other specific populations is due to its ability to make red blood cells resistant to the malaria parasite.8. In this group, the incidence is 1 in 2,500 people.