ACLU says drug war boosts highway racial profiling
The ACLU reports race based traffic stops have risen nationwide amid the war on drugs. It cites Operation Pipeline training 27,000 officers and calls profiling a form of Jim Crow justice on highways. The group urges departments to document incidents and notes North Carolina's law mandating stop data.
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Atlanta Olympic officials admit to gifts to aid 1996 bid
Atlanta officials disclosed in an internal report that gifts and favorable actions were given to IOC members and affiliates to win the 1996 Summer Games. The document details a $25,000 donation to a South African anti apartheid group and a used bus sent to Peru, among other items that exceeded the IOC limit.
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