(The Root) — Though the New York City Police Department has steadfastly denied that its controversial stop-and-frisk program constitutes racial profiling, today it appears that New York’s finest are ...
The over-policing and raid of a so-called blind pig sparked the 1967 race rebellion in Detroit. Subsequently, in the 1970s, Detroit police had the notorious STRESS program where undercover cops ...
Ethnic profiling remains a sensitive and complex issue within police work. In his Ph.D. research at the University of Twente, Bas Böing examined how police officers can be more effectively engaged in ...
The investigative arm of the Oakland Police Commission sustained its first case of racial profiling. Mariano Contreras found what an Oakland police lieutenant said about Latinos being armed at ...
Last week, we reported on “Secure Communities,” a new national program that links local detention centers into a national database of illegal aliens. In our story, critics of the plan said it might ...
Rarely is it pleasant to get stopped by law enforcement. Yes, I admit to getting two speeding tickets in one day in the 1980s, but I paid heavily for those blunders. The officers — CHP on the first ...
The final version may now be two and a half years late, following the release of a draft back in January, but Police Chief Rosie Sizer finally delivered her “plan to address racial profiling” to city ...