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President Bush issued the first broad ban on racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies yesterday, but included exceptions permitting use of race and ethnicity to combat potential terrorist attacks.
The new policy covers about 120,000 officers at 70 federal agencies with law enforcement powers. ...
Boyd said a Justice Department study found "no apparent evidence of systemic evidence of racial profiling" in federal law enforcement, and said the policy is "directed at stopping the abuses of a few. ... "
The administration billed the policy as a major step in fulfilling Bushs pledge in his first address to Congress -- in February 2001 -- that racial profiling is "wrong, and we will end it in America.
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