What Black Parents Are Still Telling Their Children | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

What Black Parents Are Still Telling Their Children | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "In Nassau, along with 30 hours of training on cultural diversity in the police academy, a much more enduring practice is 'data collection program that requires officers to note the race and ethnicity of motorists they stop on the road.'

Detective Lt. Kevin Smith adds that this data is periodically studied to determine if the police department engages in racial profiling.

Furthermore – and I hope other police departments will take notice – Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy told Newsday: 'Last year, for the first time, we completed a pilot program where we collected statistics to help identify a baseline for traffic stops and to red-flag officers who differed significantly from peers when making these stops.'

What then? 'We shared,' said Levy, 'these data with individuals who were above the norm, sought an explanation, and then possibly referred those individuals for additional training.'

This postgraduate education for police officers, if extended nationally and to police on the streets as well, could eventually lead to fewer war stories among black males about the humiliation, and worse, of 'driving while black.'"