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A Matter of Fact
Loaded on March 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 7
The Maryland State Police Drug Interdiction Squad, an all white unit, has been warned by senior state police officials to be "impartial" after the Associated Press reported that 75 percent of the drivers stopped and searched on Interstate-95 are black.More than 90 percent of police officers in the U.S. …
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