Sentences with phrase «stopping racial profiling»

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

He took exception to the stereotyping of Fulanis, saying: «We should stop the racial profiling of Fulanis and accusing them of being the perpetrators of every crime in Ghana.

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Liberal media needs to stop calling on these things and realize that certain racial profiling is common sense.

Hits right now include Sexion d'Assaut's (a group which remains signed to an independent label) song, Africain, which speaks to the African and African Diaspora experience of youth unemployment, voicelessness in the international debates (they reference the G8), dreams of going to Europe and America, the western media portrayal of Africa as a dangerous place, and the humiliation of racial profiling (rough English translation: «I will show my papers, OK, stop stressing; do not talk to me like I am another species»).

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.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

«This is a breakthrough moment, because it underscores the City of New York's commitment to stop a pattern of racial profiling that has been clothed in stop - and - frisk policing.

City Comptroller John Liu drew one of the biggest bursts of applause when he called stop - and - frisk «the biggest form of systemic racial profiling that we have anywhere in the United States of America.»

Democrat Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, promised to more closely monitor the controversial stop - and - frisk practice of New York City police, which he equated with racial profiling.

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...

Just a month after Theresa May told the Commons that the ratio of police Stop and Searches compared to arrests was far too high, the Home Office refused to state how many hundreds of people had been stopped by immigration officers compared to arrests in what looked to many like a racial profiling exercise.

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.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the pact on creating a new watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and said talks were progressing on three companion proposals to set new rules surrounding stop and frisk, including banning racial profiling.

The mayor was elected to his first term on campaign promises to curtail police officers» use of stop - and - frisk, which critics argued was tantamount to racial profiling, and to increase affordable housing following years of luxury development and soaring housing prices under his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.

One of two criminal justice bills passed by the City Council in late June would allow individuals to sue the NYPD if they believed they had been stopped and frisked because of racial profiling.

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

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.

At the end of his two minutes, Holt interjected to say that stop - and - frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York as a form of racial profiling, to which Trump replied «No.

An end to the «School - to - Prison Pipeline» and the promotion of alternatives such as restorative justice programs, wrap - around services including an adequate guidance and social work staff; an end to racial profiling and Stop and Frisk; and a return to community schools as centers that provide medical care, skills training, and tutoring, with social workers and counselors for students» families and the community.

We, as a nation, must stop privatizing public education with profit - making, racial profiling charter schools for SOME of our children and, instead, focus on ALL of our children.

The latter, a piece of fabric ripped from a sweatshirt, is fierce, suggestive of a hanging, and is still forceful in an age of the New York Police Department's racial - profiling stop - and - frisk programme.

And, a 2016 report, which was spurred by a human rights complainant alleging racial profiling, reviewed two years of traffic stops in Ottawa and found that visible minorities were pulled over more often by police despite the fact they were not committing more traffic offences.

The fact that many of the stops of racialized men for «criminal offences» and «suspicious activities» did not lead to a charge, arrest or detention suggests that racial profiling — through conscious or unconscious bias, systemic racism, or otherwise — may indeed be responsible for the large number of unnecessary stops.

Indeed, CCLA is deeply concerned that that this report, presented almost 10 years after the Aiken complaint was filed, appears not to answer the very question at issue: whether and to what extent Ottawa police engage in racial profiling in traffic stops.

CCLA recommends that any further action or study should more adequately address the racial profiling concerns that prompted the Project, and should determine whether and to what extent there is racial profiling in traffic stops by the Ottawa Police Service.

CCLA also recommends that the data collection and study be expanded to examine racial profiling in pedestrian stops, and that all past and future data should be the subject of strict retention, privacy and destruction measures.

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.

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.

They submit that there was one allegation of racial profiling in stopping the vehicle.

[30] The applicants argue that the legal issue raised in the Code Application is racial profiling with respect to the stop of the Respondent's vehicle.