"Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America” is a powerful documentary produced by Breakthrough and the Rights Working Group featuring stories of individuals affected by racial profiling and educational interviews with notable law enforcement and civil society leaders. The video released alongside the Rights Working Group report “Faces of Racial Profiling: A Report from Communities Across America” underscores the need to stop racial profiling by federal, state and local law enforcement.
The arrest of four East Haven Police officers on federal charges of assaults of Latinos and covering up their crimes made national headlines last week while galvanizing calls throughout Connecticut to address police abuse in communities of color and profiling with stronger laws.
Why did this story generate such attention? Well, for one, it is not that common for the Department of Justice to indict local police officers for violating civil rights and harming the citizens they're sworn to protect.
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, addressed a crowd of about 500 at Howard University’s Rankin Chapel in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, as part of the Chapel’s series on connecting personal values and ethics with professional life.
Check our this new video from the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) and Next Generation Media on racial profiling in Rhode Island. A great collection of stories from community members advocating for the state's Comprehensive Racial profiling Prevention Act.
The Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition called on New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne to resign Thursday because of a lack of confidence in their ability to lead the city's police department, given the high-raking officers' conflicting and untruthful statements about the NYPD's involvement in and use of an anti-Muslim propaganda film.
The FBI announced the arrest Tuesday of four members of the East Haven Police Department in Connecticut on charges that they assaulted Latino residents while on patrol.
The FBI accused the officers of terrorizing residents and making false reports to cover up the crimes against the Latino community.
On Monday, the Fayetteville City Council voted to impose a four-month moratorium on consent searches. The 120-day moratorium, which will begin Feb. 1, is a response to complains of racial profiling and pressure from civil rights groups.
