Welcome to the Drug
Reform Coordination Network's racial profiling feature. This section
presents the full set of racial profiling documents released by the
New Jersey Attorney General's office on Monday, November 27th, 2000.
We have redacted (marked over) certain names, addresses and other identifying
information, in cases where dissemination of such information on the
Internet seemed to raise privacy issues. We have used our best judgment
on a case by case basis, striving to protect individual privacy, but
without unnecessarily deleting information that is already extremely
likely to be discussed publicly. If you spot places where you feel we
should have marked out personal information but didn't, or where we
did remove names and you think we didn't need to, please write us at
[email protected],
and we will take your comments into consideration.
We applaud the decision
of the New Jersey Attorney General's office to make these important
documents public, especially their decision to distribute copies of
the complete on CD-Rom. In the age of the Internet, however, we believe
that this information can and should be made available as widely as
possible. The current availability of the documents -- only to individuals
visiting the archive room in Trenton, or to media outlets paying $1,000
for CD copies and sending someone to Trenton to pick their copies up
-- falls short of that goal. That is why we are making the documents
available in full on our web site -- so that small media outlets, social
justice organizations, attorneys, legislators, and concerned individuals
around the world -- critics of police tactics, as well as their defenders
-- can access this information directly and decide for themselves.
