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Help STOP Racial Profiling - ACTION WE NEED TO TAKE! Correcting The System of Unequal Justice is BACK for its 1st LIVE show of 2015! Join Gerald E. Rose, his New Order National Human Rights team and Danilo Ignacio  of The Mediahandlers Group as they tackle this week's topics, Racial Profiling & Body Cameras. Call In - SOUND Off by calling in at 718-664-6543! Racial Profiling -- The consideration of race, ethnicity, or national origin by an officer of the law in deciding when and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity. 1. African-Americans comprise 13% of the U.S. population and 14% of the monthly drug users, but 37% of the people arrested for drug-related offenses in America. 2. Studies show that police are more likely to pull over and frisk blacks or Latinos than whites. In New York City, 80% of the stops made were blacks and Latinos, and 85% of those people were frisked, compared to a mere 8% of the white people stopped. 3. After being arrested, African-Americans are 33% more likely than whi