Star Tribune Column Quotes Prof. Orfield & Cites IMO Study on Racial Segregation and Profiling

A 2003 study from the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity was featured in a Star Tribune column from Jon Tevlin about racial segregation and profiling in the Twin Cities. In reference to the study's findings, which found that blacks were stopped 310 percent more often than expected in Twin Cities suburbs, Professor Myron Orfield, director of the IMO, said, "We have become really segmented, really fast. In particular, when we had a very white community next to a community with more diversity, we tended to have a very high number of [traffic] stops."