Unanimously, community organizers say his statement rings hollow and is meaningless without mandatory data collection. Stanek, who is also a Minneapolis police officer, has created an equally meaningless bill that goes against DPS Taskforce recommendations. DPS Commissioner Charlie Weaver and Governor Jesse Ventura, like Rep Neuville, have made strong statements against racial profiling while pushing for bills that do nothing to address the problem. As the legislative process has unfolded, community organizers are questioning if there was ever any intention to pass a bill with any substance. Racial profiling gives police access to people to then subject them to brutality and other misconduct, like planting evidence.
State police say young black men in expensive cars are drug runners.
You don't see them stopping white males in expensive cars. Half of them could be drug runners for all we know. It destroys police credibility. It reduces cooperation with the police because of distrust of the police. When police over focus on stopping people of color, they're not stopping criminals.