1.   Before joining the unit, Oliver said, he thought hate crimes involved only minorities, but quickly discovered otherwise.

2.   Flagged for study police misconduct involving minorities, stereotyping in media, federal employment, bilingual education, access to technology and conflicts between non-white ethnic groups.

3.   That normally would mean situations involving racial minorities, because the race of whites is not as strong an indicator of how they vote.

4.   Among the victims was the son of a prominent local Sunni militant, Shah Mohammed, whom a court recently acquitted in a murder case involving minority Shiite Muslims.

5.   Democrats and conservative Republicans reiterated their conflicting expectations of him on issues involving minorities.

6.   Critics said minorities were involved in a disproportionate number of traffic stops, searches and arrests by state troopers.

7.   He decided the change was necessary because the Justice Department review showed a slight statistical disparity in the treatment of plea agreements in cases involving minorities.

8.   Race also plays a role in the census controversy, since much of the undercount involved minorities.

9.   The figures continued to show a disproportionate number of searches involving minorities.

10.   Vazquez-Pacheco urged police to put in significant resources to solve the crimes, but doubted that would happen in a case that involved minorities.