"That statistic, not the census, is the appropriate benchmark for analyzing police enforcement activity, " Ms. Koeleveld stated.

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The report gathered statistics from police forces using the Freedom of Information Act and took population data from the 2001 Census.

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Are you at all concerned about profiling, the fact that legal immigrants will be subjected to extra scrutiny as a consequence of this extending of sort of immigration authority to local police, given that the city, Waukegan, as I understand it, according to census figures, is about 45 percent Latino now?

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