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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In New Jersey,
researchers used radar guns and cameras to
examine whether blacks speed more than
whites. In North Carolina, they got into
moving vehicles and looked out the win
dows at speeders. In Florida, students stood
on corners and counted cars.
The national furor over racial profiling
by police has also generated fierce debate
among academics over what is the most
reliable way of detecting the practice.
For police departments suspected of sin
gling out black and Hispanic motorists, the
political and legal stakes are high: The
highway studies could exonerate the police
or implicate them.
The debate over what some minorities
sarcastically call “driving while black”
flared in 1998 after state troopers opened
fire on four black and Hispanic motorists
on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Since then, dozens of police departments
and other agencies around the country have
been studying traffic stops or other driving
patterns to determine whether minorities are
being unfairly pulled over and searched for
speeding and other violations.
In New Jersey, a study commissioned by
the state and released last week concluded
that blacks are more likely than whites to
speed on the highway. The researchers
checked speeds with laser guns and pho
tographed thousands of motorists.
The troopers union claimed vindication.
Civil rights advocates objected bitterly to
the findings. And the U.S. Justice
Department — which had requested the
study — asked that it be withheld, arguing
that its methodology was flawed.
“It’s a tough thing to do inquiry in
because there are so many people with such
sharply divergent points of view who want
to claim victory,” said David Harris, a
Toledo, Ohio, law professor who has writ
ten a book on racial profiling.
Finding which way is best is the current
job of Lorie Fridell, a researcher with the
Police Executive Research Forum who will
release a how-to guide in the k\
months to help the nation’s police.,
ments monitor themselves for profile
Fridell is using part of a $250,Oft
eral grant to sift through a 3-foot
racial profiling studies commissios
police departments.
She likes some methods betterte
ers. Driving in a car alongside spee
motorists, she said, might be more re
than trying to identify a driver’s race
blurry photograph. “I would thinl
could look left and see who’s in thee
to you.” she said.
And placing people at strategicpoit
the road and having them lake downi
mation on passing cars “has some
potential if we can make it cost-effec
she said.
But the debate is recent and thepn
still in its infancy, she
There are lots of different ideas. W
frustrating to social scientists is that th
none that is great,” she said.
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Signaling the breakup of its U.S.
operations. Arthur Andersen
LLP announced Thursday that a
“significant” number of its U.S.
tax partners and professionals
will join rival Deloitte & Touche.
Terms were not disclosed.
Andersen’s U.S. operations
were jeopardized by the Enron
Corp. scandal. The firm hopes to
survive as a slimmed-down
company focused on auditing.
“This transaction is fully
consistent with our commitment
to move quickly on the
Andersen reforms initiated by
Mr. Volcker,” said Larry Gorrell,
managing partner of Arthur
Andersen, the U.S. arm of
Andersen Worldwide.
Former Federal Reserve
Chairman Paul Volcker is head
of an oversight board trying to
reform Andersen and keep it
alive as an independent firm.
Andersen's employees,
meanwhile, were bracing for
what the company has said
would be “inevitable” layoffs
among its 28,000 U.S. staffers.
Spokesperson Patrick Dorton,
responding to persistent reports
that layoffs could total 6,000 or
more, said late Thursday that no
final decision has been made.
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the deal. Andersen said
remain to be worked out
anticipates a closing date ai
soon as April 30.
“Our clients, partners and
employees have been and
remain our priorities througli
this process of reforming and
rebuilding Arthur Andersen LLP
as a firm focused on Q^y
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CDC says lab worker who contracted
anthrax was not wearing gloves
ATLANTA (AP) — A Texas laboratory worker who contracte ,
anthrax last month probably got it because he was not w |
gloves when he handled vials of spores collected from last a s
attacks, the government said Thursday. . ^
The worker handled the spores a day after he had cut his ja
shaving, the Centers for Disease Control and P reven t' on t [ e !! ( sort
He then apparently touched his face and developed an ant r ,
on his jaw.
The man was put on antibiotics and is recovering. ^
It was the first known anthrax case in the United States si I
anthrax-by-mail attacks that killed five people and sickene g
None of the 40 workers at the lab had been vaccinate
anthrax, the CDC said.
The CDC has not identified the worker or the lab.
The infection apparently happened March 1 as the wor
me inrecnon apparently happened iviarcn i as ■■
moving vials from a cabinet into a freezer, the CDC said. e ^
inuvmg vidis rrom a caomet into a rreezer, me . s
wearing gloves, contrary to federal health recommenda i
agency said. . ff|
The lab had also sprayed its storage vials with a solution
ly alcohol, rather than the 10 percent bleach solution reco
by the government, the CDC found. Hthenw
Over the next few days, the shaving cut became larger an J
reported swelling on his neck and a low-grade fever. He sp n
days in the hospital.
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