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You really can get pulled over for driving while black, federal statistics show

Column You really can get pulled over for driving while black federal statistics show Tampa Bay Times

Now this column forgets ONE ONE major point and this illustrates exactly how most uninformed Americans getting the information from the extremely biased main stream media continues to blow way out of proportion i.e. exaggerate for the sake of selling news!
MY POINT
Where in the above story is the MENTION that 1 out of 4 are racial minority as the below states?
This means in the above implication that there is a RACIAL bias when there are 1 of 4 non-whites?

From the Bureau of Justice.. Federal government statistics...
Bureau of Justice Statistics BJS - Local Police
About 1 in 4 officers were members of a racial or ethnic minority in 2007, compared to 1 in 6 officers in 1987.
  • In 2008, 12,501 local police departments with the equivalent of at least one full-time officer were operating in the U.S.
  • In 2008, local police departments had about 593,000 full-time employees, including 461,000 sworn officers. About 60% of all state and local sworn personnel were local police officers.
  • Municipal and township police departments employed an average of 2.3 full-time officers per 1,000 residents.
  • About half of local police departments employed fewer than 10 sworn personnel, and about three-fourths served a population of less than 10,000.
  • In 2007, about 1 in 8 local police officers were women, compared to 1 in 13 in 1987.
  • About 1 in 4 officers were members of a racial or ethnic minority in 2007, compared to 1 in 6 officers in 1987.
  • From 2003 to 2007, the number of Hispanic or Latino local police officers increased by 16%. In 2007, about 1 in 10 officers was Hispanic or Latino.
  • In 2007, local police recruits were required to complete an average of 1,370 training hours.
  • In 2007, more than 4 in 5 local police officers were employed by a department that used physical agility tests (86%) and written aptitude tests (82%) in the hiring process, and more than 3 in 5 by one that used personality inventories (66%).
  • Average starting salaries for entry-level local police officers in 2007 ranged from $26,600 per year in the smallest jurisdictions to $49,500 in the largest. Overall, the average starting salary earned by entry-level officers was about $40,500.
  • Overall, local police operating costs for fiscal year 2007 were $116,500 per sworn officer and $260 per resident.
  • During 2007, more than half (55%) of local police departments used regularly scheduled foot patrol, and about a third (32%) used bicycle patrol.
  • In 2007, 67% of local police officers were employed by a department that required them to wear protective body armor at all times while in the field, compared to 59% in 2003.
  • An estimated 75% of local police officers were employed by a department that authorized the use of conducted energy devices—such as Tasers—during 2007, up from 47% in 2003.
  • Sixty-one percent of local police departments regularly used video cameras in patrol cars during 2007, compared to 55% in 2003. There were about 71,000 in-car cameras in use during 2007, compared to 49,000 in 2003.
  • More than 90% of local police departments serving 25,000 or more residents were using in-field computers during 2007.
  • In 2007, about 9 in 10 local police officers were employed by a department that used in-field computers, compared to about 3 in 10 officers in 1990.
  • A majority of local police departments serving 10,000 or more residents had sworn personnel assigned to a multiagency drug task force during 2007.
 

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