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The author's observation is that racial profiling is at the heart of why we have problems with police corruption.

The end of the article argues that racial profiling allows a majority of citizens to ignore problems with policing because abuses are highly concentrated on "other people". This makes police corruption "not my problem".

The problem isn't complacency with the abuses; the problem is that abuses are concentrated on minorities of the population so that the majority of voters/stakeholders don't have enough skin in the game to care.




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