Beverly Reaves says she was shopping for a home the first time she felt racially profiled. The ordeal of facing police with guns drawn left her shaken and distrustful of police. Researchers are looking at how police patrol black and minority communities and say in a recent study that there is a stronger focus on black communities especially when it comes to drug enforcement.
Roderick Harrison is a demographer at the joint center for political and economic studies and is a professor at Howard University.
Harrison says that very often minorities are easier targets because their offenses are done in public while their white counterparts have the money to hide illegal activity.
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