Racial profiling debate heats-up in legislative committee hearing

AUSTIN (KXAN) - State lawmakers in a hearing held by the House Committee on County Affairs once again grilled the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety over allegations of racial profiling. It's more fallout from a KXAN investigation that revealed for the first time troopers wrongly recording the races of minority drivers, mostly Hispanic, during traffic stops.
As lawmakers hotly debated the results of a recent review of DPS racial profiling statistics by a University of North Caroli