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The court-appointed monitor overseeing compliance at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office with three court orders to root our racial profiling against Latino drivers held a community meeting in ...
A major concern with this case's ruling is that police conducting traffic stops may racially profile the stopped persons. [4] Similar to the controversy around New York City's Stop and Frisk program, some believe that the ruling in Whren will lead to an increase in racial profiling towards young African American males. [5]
In the case of racial profiling drivers, the ethnic backgrounds of drivers stopped by traffic police in the U.S. suggests the possibility of biased policing against non-white drivers. [40] Black drivers felt that they were being pulled over by law enforcement officers simply because of their skin color.
The court dismissed the claims holding that the police may question members of a specific minority group based on a witness' physical description. [ 2 ] The ruling has been criticized as upholding racial profiling in law enforcement.
Now 42, Syed, whose case was brought to national attention by family friend and attorney Rabia Chaudry, and made the subject of popular 2014 podcast “Serial,” had his convictions of murder ...
France's highest administrative court rejected on Wednesday a class action lawsuit against the state for failing to stop police racial profiling, saying it was not the judges' role to redefine ...
Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al., 959 F. Supp. 2d 540 (S.D.N.Y. 2013), is a set of cases addressing the class action lawsuit filed against the City of New York, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and named and unnamed New York City police officers ("Defendants"), alleging that defendants have implemented and sanctioned a policy, practice, and/or custom of ...
Massachusetts lawmakers have done little to combat racial profiling over the past 20 years. Beacon Hill’s Democratic party leaders, under pressure from law enforcement, have repeatedly rejected ...