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Racial profiling by law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels, leads to discrimination against people in the African American, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latino, Arab, and Muslim communities of the United States. Examples of racial profiling are the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic ...
Racial profiling. Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality, rather than on individual suspicion or available evidence. [1] [2] Racial profiling involves discrimination against minority populations and often builds on ...
November 21, 2023 at 5:19 AM. Whitewashed: The story behind Massachusetts' 20-year failure to address racial profiling. Massachusetts legislators, despite the state’s liberal reputation, have ...
Rushing filed those proposals over and over – in 1999, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. He made them on behalf of people like Terrence Maxey, a Black resident who told the USA TODAY ...
Black drivers in California were stopped “more frequently than expected” by law enforcement, compared to their proportion of the state’s population, according to a report released this week ...
Michael Kinsley asked in a 2001 article for Slate magazine if a rational reason exists to single out Arabic-looking men at airport. King Downing, the national coordinator of the American Civil Liberties Union's Campaign Against Airport Racial Profiling, says he was the victim of profiling by police at Logan International Airport in Boston, MA.
Opponents have called it unconstitutional and said will lead to racial profiling. A federal judged in late February blocked the law from being implemented while its legality plays out in court.
The program also became the subject of a racial-profiling controversy. Ninety percent of those stopped in 2017 were African-American or Latino, mostly aged 14–24. By contrast, 54.1% of the population of New York City in 2010 was African-American or Latino; however, 74.4% of individuals arrested overall were of those two racial groups.