The first was one of the paragraphs in your Across the U.S.A. section. It discussed a study done in North Carolina demonstrating that police officers pulled over nearly twice as many whites as blacks. Your own statistics, however, belie that message. An article on how police do not appear to be racist is analogous to running an article about how I, a college student, went to class today. It is neither news, nor is it worthy of celebration.
Police use force more often against their own racial or ethnic groups.
Again, regardless of what this report was meant to accomplish, there seems to have been no analysis of the cited statistics. Aside from the unfortunate misuse of statistics, I find it reprehensible that a national newspaper with a wide readership such as yours would apparently try to make the extremely important and loaded political issues of racial profiling and police brutality seem nonexistent or unimportant. I challenge the editors of USA Today to refocus first on publishing news, rather than column filler, and second, on looking beyond poorly used statistics to examine the underlying issues.