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N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/S E P T E M B E R 26, 2005

Times buried them in paragraph 11 of its front-page story (and omitted the day- night disparity entirely). But not only did the Times conceal the study’s import, it also had the temerity to spin the survey as confirming the racial-profiling myth. Indeed, the BJS study will “add grist to the debate over using racial and ethnic data in law enforcement,” the newspaper asserted, because it provided evidence of “the aggressive police treatment of black and Hispanic drivers.”

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N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/S E P T E M B E R 26, 2005

Times buried them in paragraph 11 of its front-page story (and omitted the day- night disparity entirely). But not only did the Times conceal the study’s import, it also had the temerity to spin the survey as confirming the racial-profiling myth. Indeed, the BJS study will “add grist to the debate over using racial and ethnic data in law enforcement,” the newspaper asserted, because it provided evidence of “the aggressive police treatment of black and Hispanic drivers.”