Durham city officials are looking into a complaint that police made inappropriate payments to drug informants.
An advocacy group says police paid informants and didn鈥檛 disclose it, which is required by law.
Attorneys from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice also say police unfairly target black and Hispanic people. The department denies any wrongdoing.
"My objective," said Durham Councilman Steve Schewell on 吉彩网网站's The State of Things, "is to make sure that there is not a scintilla of racial profiling in Durham, that there鈥檚 no place for it and that whatever policies that need to be made so that does not occur are made."
Listen to the full conversation, which also includes 吉彩网网站's political reporter Jorge Valencia:
http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wunc/audio/2014/03/sot031314segA.mp3
A group of Durham residents appointed by the city council is making recommendations on how to improve the relationship between police and community groups.
