Following controversy over whether New Jersey state police used "racial profiling" in stopping minority motorists, governor Christine Todd Whitman fired state police superintendent Carl Williams when he told a reporter that Jamaicans dominate heroin traffic, white bikers were mostly responsible for methamphetamine traffic, and Russians and Eastern Europeans ran most of the state's organized crime.

[Ed.: To address racial-profiling allegations, the Clinton Justice Department called for a study on whether state troopers were pulling over a disproportionate percentage of African American drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike. Released two years later, the study determined that blacks were nearly twice as likely to speed (driving at least 80 mph in a 65 mph zone) than whites. The study relied on data supplied by an independent contractor, the Public Services Research Institute, which over a three-month period photographed tens of thousands of motorists while clocking them with radar guns.]

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