In an interview
conducted after his now-infamous arrest last week for disorderly
conduct, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates said that he now
"wants to do what I can so that every police officer will think
twice before engaging in this kind of behavior." While we may never
know if Gates was actually the victim of racial profiling, writes
Associate Editor Damon W. Root, Gates' outrage can still help those
who have been—and will be—racially profiled. And the best way to
get law enforcement to "think twice" about racial profiling is by
exposing the drug war's disastrous impact on America's criminal
justice system and by working to end the drug war itself.
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