Sentences with phrase «target by ethnicity»

NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly maintains that the department doesn't target by ethnicity, but rather follows whatever leads it has.

Not exact matches

Although the overall rate of breastfeeding initiation (73.4 percent) was close to the target, there were major differences by race / ethnicity.

In view of the growing body of work evaluating breastfeeding peer support, we have distinguished between this and other kinds of lay support, following the definition by Dennis 2002: «Peer support is provided by lay individuals who are not part of the client's own embedded network, who possess experiential knowledge of the targeted behaviour (i.e. successful breastfeeding skills) and similar qualities (i.e. age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, residency etc.) in order to aid the client during a time of actual or potential stress (i.e. the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding).»

In Rwanda one tribal ethnicity engaged in genocide against another not many years ago, surely influenced by its colonial history but occurring between perceived «more - favoured» / «less favoured» peoples, in which white ethnic persons were largely neither attackers nor targets.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

In Pakistan, in contrast, bombings are driven by religious differences between people who are ethnically much more similar within a multi-ethnic panorama of predominantly Muslim ethnicities - indeed, often the targets of bombings are secular people, or Christians, or less «fundamentalist» Muslims of the same ethnicity as the bombers, so simple ethnic profiling is not very useful in making a first order assessment of the risk that someone is a bomber and generates vastly more false positives.

They discuss the implications for targeting suicide prevention efforts by race / ethnicity — including the need for «culturally competent mental illness detection and treatment» in minority groups.

«However, our demonstration of differences in fracture rates by ethnicity, socioeconomic status and location will clearly be helpful in targeting health resources to those at greatest risk.

Future studies are needed to examine sodium trends by race / ethnicity and income to identify vulnerable subpopulations that further interventions should target,» the article concludes.

These dating sites have narrowed down the people they target either by location, ethnicity, religion, age and other specific classifications.

The percentage of proficient students within various subgroups, broken out by ethnicity, income, disability, and English - language - learner status, must also meet these same targets.

This week a decision by Twitter to close the accounts of far right group Britain First has swiveled a critical spotlight on Facebook — as the company continues to host the same group's page, apparently preferring to selectively remove individual posts even though Facebook's community standards forbid hate groups if they target people with protected characteristics (such as religion, race and ethnicity).

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.