Colorado Launches Effort To Study Racial Profiling

DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers are starting to quantify the state’s racial profiling by law enforcement in the aftermath of high-profile clashes between the public and officers around the nation.
A committee of lawmakers on Tuesday had the first of several meetings they’ll hold by year’s end. The goal is to propose legislation on how to collect demographic data on arrests, stops, and searches to determine if there are troublesome trends.
Current state law bars police pr