A bit of irony for this morning: Massachusetts has ordered its police forces to track all traffic stops for racial profiling. Apparently, there is a concern that certain police officers are using a driver's race as enough for "reasonable suspicion" (they call that "driving while black" or "DWB" around here). In the article, Bishop Filipe Teixeira, a Catholic bishop in the Commonwealth noted that he's heard complaints of minorities being targeted. He is quoted as stating "We do have bad apples in the police departments." Now, I know this quote didn't come from the government, but am I the only one who finds it ironic that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is launching a data collection probe to study racial profiling in its police departments at the same time that it has supposedly come up with a fool proof plan to reinstate the death penalty with no room for error?

Massachusetts launches racial profiling probe