Sentences with phrase «discriminatory policing practices»

Anji Malhotra, co-author of a study released by the University at Buffalo and Cornell law schools based on two years of research into Buffalo Police Department policing practices, joined other activists Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to call for action to be taken against what they called discriminatory policing practices.

De Blasio, who ran for office on a platform of ending discriminatory policing practices such as stop and frisk, has said he does not feel the additional officers are necessary.

The mayor was elected on a platform of improving relations between the NYPD and communities of color and ending discriminatory policing practices.

A human rights lawyer, she was a central figure in the Jane Doe case which exposed discriminatory police practices in Toronto and was a leading voice in the fight to create Ontario's Pay Equity Act.

We have also highlighted issues such as discriminatory police practices, counterterrorism, immigration detention and multicultural policy.

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The organization has also complained to the Home Office and the Independent Office for Police Conduct, calling for reforms to what it describes as a «totally unregulated, potentially discriminatory and unlawful practice.»

Last month, the company said it was temporarily disabling the ability of advertisers to exclude racial groups from the intended audience of ads, and promised to «do better» at policing discriminatory practices.

They cited a two - year study conducted by UB and Cornell Law Schools that found that Buffalo police, especially Strike Force and Housing officers, engage in unconstitutional and discriminatory practices.

This was a flimsy pretense, however, since the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) refused to grant liquor licenses to any bar that served homosexual customers, and the police department routinely used this discriminatory practice as a reason to arrest LGBT patrons.

The titles and the imagery of these, along with more recent works that take on similar subjects, pose larger philosophical questions about the dynamics of power and responsibility, the ethics, agency and inherent bias of policing, methods of interrogation, and the politics of discriminatory practices.

In an article on 18 February 2016, Maclean's called Canadian jails the «new residential schools» because of «discriminatory practices and a biased system» that «work against an Indigenous accused, from the moment a person is first identified by police, to their appearance before a judge, to their hearing before a parole board.»

Chapter ten, Addressing racism, shines a light on themes that need to be discussed openly and honestly: institutional racism, power and privilege, human rights abuses, historical contributors to current inequities, and concerns over discriminatory practices in policing and law.

Because of racial profiling (refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin), my children everyday become targets for police.