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San Diego has fallen behind on combating police racial profiling
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Jan 7, 2014
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San Diego has fallen behind on combating police racial profiling
Data collected by the New York Police Department show 84-percent of pedestrians patted down by its officers were black or Latino. The figure is the cornerstone of several challenges to the department's controversial stop-and-frisk tactics.
San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, second from left, and other law enforcement officials approach the door of an office where authorities discovered a 1760 foot cross border drug smuggling tunnel Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, in Otay Mesa area of San Diego. A tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego is equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system, U.S. authorities said Thursday, making it one of the more sophisticated secret passages discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, second from left, and other law enforcement officials approach the door of an office in Otay Mesa area of San Diego.
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Data collected by the New York Police Department show 84-percent of pedestrians patted down by its officers were black or Latino. The figure is the cornerstone of several challenges to the department's controversial stop-and-frisk tactics.

Data collected by the New York Police Department show 84-percent of pedestrians patted down by its officers were black or Latino. The figure is the cornerstone of several challenges to the department's controversial stop-and-frisk tactics.

Some residents in San Diego also say they're being racially profiled. A joint investigation from our sister station KPBS and Voice of San Diego finds San Diego police haven't followed a key policy to determine whether officers discriminate.

KPBS reporter Megan Burks has the story.

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