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Profiling And Consent: Stops, Searches And Seizures After Soto, Jeffrey Fagan, Amanda Geller
Profiling And Consent: Stops, Searches And Seizures After Soto, Jeffrey Fagan, Amanda Geller
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Following Soto v State (1999), New Jersey was among the first states to enter into a comprehensive Consent Decree with the U.S. Department of Justice to end racially selective enforcement on the state’s highways. The Consent Decree led to extensive reforms in the training and supervision of state police troopers, and the design of information technology to monitor the activities of the State Police. Compliance was assessed in part on the State’s progress toward the elimination of racial disparities in the patterns of highway stops and searches. We assess compliance by analyzing data on 257,000 vehicle stops on the New …