Tell the Truth, Get Demoted

The Bush administration wanted a study into charges of racial profiling -- looking at how police went after non-white speeders and other traffic offenders.

The report found that whites and minorities were stopped at roughly the same rate. But that blacks and hispanics were a lot more likely to have their car searched or be subjected to force after the stop.

That's when the head of the agency that did the study ran into trouble. Lawrence Greenfield was director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. He started getting calls and visits from Justice Department bigwigs who told him to delet or water down any reference to racial or ethnic disparities.

Director Greenfield refused and published the report -- unaltered -- online.

Now he's been demoted. (Morningstar.com)