Sentences with phrase «racial profiling law»

It's worth noting that the Koch - funded American Legislative Exchange Council distributed Arizona's controversial racial profiling law, SB 1070, to states around the country so private prison companies can rake a profit off the incarceration of immigrants.

The rally on the steps of City Hall drew dozens of chanting activists attempting to show the controversial legislation, which would create an NYPD inspector general and strengthen racial profiling laws, has ardent grassroots support.

Not exact matches

We haven't even talked about law enforcement yet and the effect that systemic racial profiling and killings by police have on black communities.

«My amendment would ensure that no federal funds are flowing to any law - enforcement entity that the [Justice] Department has identified as engaging in racial, ethnic, and religious profiling,» he said in introducing the measure.

The «Justice Package» consists of legislation aimed at ending racial profiling, demilitarizing law enforcement and rising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old in some states, including New York.

The Republican governor also issued an executive order that would require additional training for local officers on how to implement the law without engaging in racial profiling.

Officials say the law amounts to de facto racial profiling.

«Based on a prior law the City Council passed, racial profiling is illegal in New York City, as it should be,» said Quinn.

Adams also co-founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, an organization that gives grants to African - American organizations and aims to combat racial profiling.

The fact is our Administration has zero tolerance for racial profiling — that's why I signed a racial profiling ban into law in 2004.

1080 is not aimed at stopping racial profiling, which is already against the law.

The NYPD inspector general proposal is part of a group of policing reforms called the Community Safety Act, which includes measures requiring officers to identify themselves and laws designed to curb racial profiling and unlawful searches.

Today the laws would be condemned as racial profiling.

The case became a cause célèbre and one of the highest profile racial killings in UK history; its fallout included profound cultural changes to attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice, and the partial revocation of double jeopardy laws, before two of the perpetrators were convicted almost 20 years later in 2012.

The high - profile slayings of black men such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray just exemplify the problems of overmilitarized police departments, overcriminalization of youth, perpetuation of state - sanctioned racial bigotry, drug war overkill, and violations of civil liberties by law enforcement that have been detailed at length by progressives, conservatives, and libertarians alike.

Although racial profiling occurs across the nation by law enforcers everywhere, New Jersey has had a disproportionate number of documented cases of excessive force by police officers and an absurd amount of targeting of minority drivers.

While many of the participating artists have experienced racial profiling and even violence from law enforcement, it is through the media that all of them have learned of important incidents in this history from Birmingham to Ferguson.

John Cleary, himself, successfully argued three Supreme Court cases, including the hallmark decision in United States v. Brignoni - Ponce, 422 U.S. 873 (1975), which challenged law enforcement's use of racial profiling.

«The law society respects Mr. Pieters» efforts to bring public attention to the issues of anti-black racism and racial profiling,» the statement said.

High - profile controversies over police shootings, questionable promotions, racial profiling, attacks on law enforcement and race - based incidents have led to an increase in public employees being disciplined for publicly posting commentary deemed offensive or incendiary.

The appeal court's decision is «significant and important» as one of the first racial profiling findings by the court that doesn't involve law enforcement agents, Pieters told Legal Feeds via e-mail.

This is the second case of racial profiling involving Mr. Joel DeBellefeuille, a Black professional who was stopped and fined in 2009 while driving his BMW in the South Shore municipality by two LPS officers who doubted that a Black man could have a car like his; the case went back and forth between the municipal court and the Quebec Superior Court, and lead to the ground - breaking 66 - page court decision in 2012 that provides an exhaustive review Canadian case law on racial profiling.

A prominent black lawyer who says he felt humiliated when a security guard denied him entry to the law society's headquarters has made a racial profiling complaint to the human rights tribunal.

Subjects and themes focus on the content of judging (e.g., substantive law), the craft of judging (e.g., judicial skills), and the context of judging (e.g., judicial ethics, racial profiling).

At the regional level, with NJI support, the regional education chairs have developed innovative new modules on criminal law topics as varied as racial profiling, expert evidence, conditional sentences, human trafficking, and evidence in an electronic world.

With allegations of racial profiling in Arizona's new immigration law abuzz throughout the media this week, it was interesting for me to come upon the speaking notes for a recent speech by Jennifer Lynch, Q.C., Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC); the speech,

The OHRC's involvement in significant racial profiling cases has helped to advance the law on racial profiling as a prohibited form of discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code for example: Shaw v. Phipps, 2012 ONCA 155 (CanLII); Peel Law Association v. Pieters, 2013 ONCA 396 (CanLII); Maynard v. Toronto Police Services Board, 2012 HRTO 1220 (CanLII); Nassiah v. Peel Police Services Board, 2007 HRTO 14 (CanLIlaw on racial profiling as a prohibited form of discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code for example: Shaw v. Phipps, 2012 ONCA 155 (CanLII); Peel Law Association v. Pieters, 2013 ONCA 396 (CanLII); Maynard v. Toronto Police Services Board, 2012 HRTO 1220 (CanLII); Nassiah v. Peel Police Services Board, 2007 HRTO 14 (CanLILaw Association v. Pieters, 2013 ONCA 396 (CanLII); Maynard v. Toronto Police Services Board, 2012 HRTO 1220 (CanLII); Nassiah v. Peel Police Services Board, 2007 HRTO 14 (CanLII).

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.