The Cambridge, Mass., police department has announced the creation of a committee to "help identify lessons learned from the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr." or, rather, to Figure It All Out. It supposedly will meet several times over the next few months and do what all committees do: make a report.

Racial profiling that became widespread during the Bush days is still with us, according a new report co-authored by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Despite U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s willingness to talk about race in America and his pledge to end racial profiling, his Department of Justice hasn’t done much to dismantle Bush-era guidelines [...]