Sentences with phrase «about racial profiling»

Our submission provided information about racial profiling and how to identify it; explained (1) why the OPP's DNA collection from migrant workers appeared to be consistent with racial profiling, and (2) how police DNA collection may disproportionately affect racialized and marginalized groups; and made recommendations on how the OPP can address racial bias in its policing.
The report and study were created specifically to provide a systemic remedy, and to collect data, in response to concerns about racial profiling by Ottawa police.
Mr. Roland refuses to speak about the charges, but when he returned to school, he continued to wear a version of his orange prison jumpsuit as a way to spark discussions about racial profiling and incarceration.
«Michael Brown,» a Facing History blog post written by Los Angeles Associate Program Director Mary Hendra, is featured on the list as an excellent resource for teaching about racial profiling and / or police violence.
The book includes «lessons and essays about racial profiling, environmental racism, unfair mortgage lending practices of Big Banks, the «overabundance of liquor stores» in minority communities, and slave - owning U.S. presidents,» EAGnews» Ben Velderman wrote.
Additionally, the National Education Association (NEA) compiled a guide of «how to steps,» to teach about racial profiling.
Charles Curry, the recently retired head of cardiology at Howard University Hospital, was concerned about racial profiling, but he supplied patients for the BiDil trial and was listed as a coinvestigator.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The local Democratic Party today withdrew its support for Toby Shelley as a candidate for Onondaga County executive in response to comments about racial profiling attributed to Shelley in a recent newspaper interview.
The local Democratic Party withdrew its support for Toby Shelley as a candidate for Onondaga County executive in response to comments about racial profiling attributed to Shelley in a recent newspaper interview.
And try as he might, he can not outrun remarks about racial profiling he made to the Syracuse New Times.
Just after Democrats designated him to be their candidate this year, Shelley was quoted in the Syracuse New Times in an article about racial profiling that he thought it was okay for police to stop and ask someone who looked different how he was doing.
Attitudes about racial profiling are also reflected in what Muslim Americans say about prejudice they face.

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Obviously, the police have been feeling a lot of heat lately with a series of nationwide (even global) protests about abuse of power, racial profiling and lack of accountability.
We haven't even talked about law enforcement yet and the effect that systemic racial profiling and killings by police have on black communities.
That investigation will run at the same time as an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into UK Border Agency (UKBA) spot - checks at British tube stations, after fears were raised that officers were using racial profiling to select who to speak to about their immigration status.
Although the document reminds those carrying out the checks not to «practice racial or nationality profiling» or «cherry - pick which patients to question», there are already concerns about how this will work in practice.
NY Police Commissioner Bill Bratton heard concerns from several African - American leaders about stop - and - frisk and racial profiling Tuesday night at a reception hosted by Citibank global banking head Ray McGuire and his wife, author Crystal McCrary, at their home.
NY Police Commissioner Bill Bratton heard concerns from several African - American leaders about stop - and - frisk and racial profiling Tuesday night at a reception hosted by Citibank global banking head Ray McGuire and...
AG Eric Schneiderman has launched a probe into Barneys and Macy's after four complaints about alleged racial profiling at the New York City shopping havens surfaced in the past week.
The NYCLU released a report that details how far New York police departments go to keep information from the public on the use of force, stops and detentions, complaints about misconduct, racial profiling and the use of surveillance equipment.
ALBANY — The state attorney general has launched a probe into Barneys and Macy's after four complaints about alleged racial profiling at the New York City shopping havens surfaced in the past week, the Daily News has learned.
The former city comptroller supports stop and frisk — an unmistakable nod to anxieties in African - American communities about continued street crime — but he also makes a convincing case that had he been mayor (Thompson came surprisingly close to beating Bloomberg in 2009), the egregious racial profiling that has resulted would not have developed.
Shelley wishes he had used a different example in the interview because he said he was trying to make a point about police profiling, not racial profiling.
Riding out these degradations is hard going at times, but this heady thematic mix of «issues about the justice system, gentrification, power dynamics, and racial profiling» also boasts an energetic «music video aesthetic... to give a sense we're playing in Leah's New York fantasies.»
For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.
What I found most powerful about President Obama's heartfelt comments about the Trayvon Martin verdict was his depiction of the insidiousness of racial profiling:
Addressing Racism and Stereotyping Lesson plans, activities and classroom resources to help students grapple with and discuss their feelings about the causes of racism, stereotyping and racial profiling.
Racial profiling is an interesting topic to write an essay about.
In particular, you should decide whether you want to write about the history of racial profiling before September 11 attack.
In one compact, teachable verse (Verse 2), the song forces us to think about traffic stops, vehicle searches, drug smuggling, probable cause, and racial profiling, and it beautifully tees up my favorite pedagogical heuristic: life lessons for cops and robbers.
He says that any path to justice will require talking about residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; contemporary child welfare policies executed by organizations like Child and Family Serivces; racial profiling by police and other ways in which Indigenous people are criminalized by the so - called justice system; the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; all of the forms of oppressive regulation of Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act over the last 150 years.
«any action undertaken for reasons of safety, security or public protection that relies on stereotypes about race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, or place of origin rather than on reasonable suspicion, to single out an individual for greater scrutiny or different treatment» (OHRC, Paying the Price: The Human Cost of Racial Profiling, 2003, p. 6).
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