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Fort Hood Tragedy: The Accidental Terrorist
The news today about the incident at Fort Hood is tragic. Reports have confirmed numerous wounded and 12 dead, including the shooter. As details begin to leak out slowly in the midst of the confusion and tragedy, many will be concerned for loved...
Tags: Fort Hood, Malik Nidal Hasan, profiling, Racial Politics, shooting, Terrorism, War on Terrorism
7 Arguments to RACIAL PROFILING: Is it a Bad Idea?
Top 7 Arguments Against Racial Profiling Racial Profiling Doesn't Work black suspects were no more likely to actually have drugs or illegal weapons in their cars than white suspects. According to the Public Health Service, approximately...
Tags: racism, prejudice, prison, latinos, blacks, muslims, arabs, profiling, criminal profiling, law enforcement, 14th amendment, bombings, public health service, jim crow, community supervision, constitution, protection, police, iraq, shopping difference for blacks, suspicious behavior, latino issues, segregaion, war on terror, whites, low standards of policing, bigotry
Professor Gates, Racism and White Backlash
Professor Gates of Harvard has been tarred by much of the media over the past few weeks. The issue of course is whether he or any other person of color has the right to claim racial profiling after...
Tags: Racism, Professor Gates, profiling, fear, the media, justice
When Can A Black Man Get Angry? The Arrest of a Harvard Scholar
It took me some time to sit down and complete this piece for many reasons. First I had to allow time for my angst over the suspicious arrest of yet another Black man by law enforcement to subside. Then I had to allow slanted and biased media reports on...
Tags: Henry, Louis, Gates, Harvard, racial, profiling, racism, Crowley, Obama, Black, men, anger
Study: LA police stop more blacks than whites
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
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The city's police officers are more likely to stop and search black and Hispanic residents than they are whites, even though whites are more often found carrying guns and contraband, according to a report released Monday by a civil liberties group. More...
Tags: racial profiling, police, racial, economist, profiling, law, race, obama
Racial Profiling or Sobriety Checkpoint?
San Rafael police have begun to set up sobriety checkpoints in the Canal District in San Rafael California--an area known for its extremely high concentation of hispanic people. Police officials maintain that they choose locations based on hit and run,...
Tags: immigration, profiling, DUI Checkpoint, discrimination, sobriety checkpoint
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