Traffic stops: "In North Carolina, the numbers show that a black or Hispanic motorist is 77 percent more likely to be searched after a traffic stop than a white driver."...
Stop and Frisk: "Judge Scheindlin has ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy amounts to “a policy of indirect racial profiling” that violates the U.S. Constitution."
Stop and Frisk: Liberal political site:"The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals removed Judge Scheindlin from the case... for failing to appear impartial and for giving media appearances to answer critics of her ruling"
"At every juncture--from suspicion to conviction--people of color, especially blacks, are significantly more likely than whites to get tangled up in America's system of justice.And juvenile statistics mirror those for adults: Roughly two-thirds of juveniles detained in public facilities are persons of color--nearly twice their proportion in the general population"...
Study: Race alone not issue for bail; In response to strong concerns among members of the black community that blacks are more likely than whites to be held before trial, a federal committee found that the reasons why can be traced to 15 factors that judges must consider
"law requires Arizona police, state and local, to check a suspect's documents to determine his or her immigration status when they make any kind of stop, such as a traffic violation, if they suspect that the person is an illegal alien."
"A federal judge ruled that Arizona Sheriff and his deputies had violated the constitutional rights of Latinos by targeting them during raids and traffic stops..."
"Two university professors hired by the U.S. Department of Justice to analyze traffic stops by the Alamance County Sheriff's Office say statistical data conclusively shows deputies there are racially profiling Latino drivers."
"In North Carolina, the numbers show that a black or Hispanic motorist is 77 percent more likely to be searched after a traffic stop than a white driver."
" in 2009, Latino drivers were three times more likely to be subjected to a consent search than white drivers. But white drivers were more than 2.5 times more likely to have contraband found in their car during such a search than Latinos. "
Stop and Frisk: "Judge Scheindlin has ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy amounts to “a policy of indirect racial profiling” that violates the U.S. Constitution."
Stop and Frisk: Liberal political site:"The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals removed Judge Scheindlin from the case... for failing to appear impartial and for giving media appearances to answer critics of her ruling"
"At every juncture--from suspicion to conviction--people of color, especially blacks, are significantly more likely than whites to get tangled up in America's system of justice.And juvenile statistics mirror those for adults: Roughly two-thirds of juveniles detained in public facilities are persons of color--nearly twice their proportion in the general population"...
"The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of using racial, ethnic, and religious profiling in its attempts to fight crime and domestic terrorism within the US."
"According to court documents, the New York City police routinely selected Muslim groups for surveillance and infiltration, even when they did not sponsor unlawful or terrorist acts and were not accused of contributing to them."
"we are deeply disappointed by the FBI's failure to take decisive action in dealing with the scandal over their use of bigoted anti-Arab and anti-Muslim training materials.... For the FBI to not understand the damage they have done, the hurt they have created, and the trust they have broken, is incomprehensible."
"New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ... disbanding a controversial domestic spying unit that had been monitoring Muslim residents in both New York and New Jersey."
"...NYPD to offer a concrete plan to help counter the misinformation about Islam and Muslims provided to almost 1500 officers through the screening of "The Third Jihad," a notorious anti-Muslim propaganda film."
"...more than 300 hours of secret videotapes from a U.S. prison facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., where many Arab and Muslim detainees were incarcerated in the months after 9/11...prison guards slam inmates into walls, twist their arms and wrists and subject them to humiliating strip searches."
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Study: Race alone not issue for bail; In response to strong concerns among members of the black community that blacks are more likely than whites to be held before trial, a federal committee found that the reasons why can be traced to 15 factors that judges must consider
"MSU Law Professors O’Brien and Grosso show striking patterns of racial discrimination in North Carolina capital case charging, sentencing, and juror selection decisions."