Incidents of getting pulled over for driving while black should be on the decline in Alabama.

That's because Alabama's new public safety director has installed a formal policy against racial profiling by state troopers.

The new policy prohibits troopers from stopping motorists based solely on ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, economic status, age or cultural group, and mandates annual training.

Public Safety Director and Birmingham's former police chief Mike Coppage, says "there is no place in any professional law enforcement organization for any type of bias-based enforcement."

The new policy is drawing praise from black legislators, who have expressed concerns about racial profiling in the past.

• Want More on a Past Story? Click Here
• Back to Current News