Racial Profiling Act News Today

A new report claims Connecticut state troopers may have falsified thousands of traffic stops to show fewer infractions for Black and Hispanic drivers, and more for White drivers.

The false records potentially skewed the numbers to reflect more traffic stops for white drivers and less for Black and Hispanic motorists.

Weve seen, from what happened in ferguson, there are issues of racism, of segregation, of communities feeling protected, respected by police and vice versa. >> thats right. >> when you use ferguson as an example here in why youre marching, there have been some changes but what more needs to be done and how long does this take, do you think? >> well, much more needs to be done. so the fact is, that in the state of missouri, some progress has been made in terms of, say, municipal finds but, again,...

See if the lgbt came out on civil rights issues, and here they are. what should adults be doing to start working on policies that will impact the lives of young men? >> this rally is a crucial part of the, and immigration rights activists speaking out about show me your papers laws in arizona and other places. we can support the end racial profiling act, which is federal legislation, training for law enforcement officers. community policing based on evidence and with officers understanding the c...

Im going to say it here, i will volunteer myself if they want sensitivity training or history about the african-american community. there are professors like myself that are happy to do that. part of the problem is you have a cultural divide, and african-american police within the culture seem to forget, they enter another kind of culture in the police department. its also about training in the very beginning. so much training on the firing range. why cant you keep that training up about cultura...

Appreciate those comments and understand those comments, this really isnt an issue of training, its almost impossible to train, if you have an officer who is engaged in law enforcement tooilts based in race, you cant untrain that, what you can do is penalize severely those individuals and organizations that violate any racial profiling provisions, federal law, et cetera, and what you have to do is make better solutions of the police officers coming in, and then finally, you have to be willing to...

You stopped and are black and latino, and 88% have not committed a crime. training is an aspect. but i agree with mark, some are just full-blown bigots. i think you need a combination of all of this, the law must be enforced. i remember in the early 90s and johnnie cochran and i started talking about racial profiling on the new jersey turnpike. they were thinking that we were talking about blacks in harlem. they were profiling blacks that had fine homes on the gold coast of new jersey. they want...

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