Aarti Kohli Thinks Police Misuse Public Intoxication Law to Harass Hispanics

Mother Jones, March/April 2010 by Adam Weinstein
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/texas-racist-laws-drinking-while-brown

“They were clearly choosing to bring more Hispanics into jail,” says Aarti Kohli, coauthor of the Berkeley study. But the feds and local officials hailed the PI sweeps as a victory. Immigration “is expanding this program, saying, ‘Isn’t this great?'” Kohli says. “But the question they’re not asking is: How are these people getting put into jail?”