9/15/2004

Hurricanes don't only bring out the best in us: Roughly 600 people were arrested before the countywide curfew was lifted Friday. Though police insist that minorities were not targeted, an analysis of 455 arrests by The Palm Beach Post showed that the majority were blacks and Hispanics. More than half were under 30. Blacks and Hispanics accounted for 56.5 percent of those charged. Most of them were motorists. Palm Beach County's driving-age population is just 22.7 percent black or Hispanic, according to the Census Bureau, and just 18.3 percent of vehicles here are owned by members of those minority groups.

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