JFC Votes to Track Race of People Stopped By Police

Ah yes… the open and honest government we’ve come to expect from Wisconsin’s legislative leadership.

Starting in 2011, law enforcement officials across the state would be required to compile data on the race of people stopped by police, under a budget proposal that the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee recommended late Tuesday.

The 16-member committee, which like the Legislature is controlled by Democrats, was supposed to start meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday, but leaders spent the day in private meetings and didn’t bang the gavel to begin until after 8:30 p.m.

I thought law enforcement was supposed to ignore race?  I suspect that the same thing will happen in Wisconsin that happened at airport security checkpoints.  Cops will start pulling over white folks on flimsy excuses and let people of other races sail by in order to avoid accusations of racial profiling.