Racial profiling is a problem for police even in cases when they accidentally shoot a colleague. A task force assembled by the governor of New York, David Paterson, found that law enforcement across the country has mistaken minority officers as criminals in the majority of police-on-police cases. Since 1980, 26 police officers have been killed by their own, who mistook them for criminals. In the 14 cases reported since 1995, 10 of the victims were “officers of color.” In those instances when the officer killed was off-duty, and thus out of uniform, nine out of 10 were black or Latino.