Prometheus 6 posted an article about the difficulties associated with data collection as it relates to racial profiling. My students found similar problems in Missouri. My thoughts on racial profiling are kind of mixed...while I know it is real, it seems to me another class game fronting like a race game. Think about the image we have of the typical profiling case...some brother driving a benz in a neighborhood he supposedly shouldn't be in. When was the last time a brother in a Yugo was profiled? For working class brothers and sisters I'm thinking that either police deriliction or police brutality are more salient issues.
But to be sure we need to collect data. Maybe it's my old school roots, but I'm thinking that citizens should be doing the data collection simultaneously...and waging the war with data rather than pickets. Probably a bit of Sun Tzu in there too come to think about it.