Directory of Racial Profiling Resources

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Racial profiling is the controversial practice of determining a probability of criminal suspicion on the basis of race, national origin, or ethnicity, and, at times, the act of basing law enforcement or exclusionary actions on such a profile.

Resources in This Category

• City Journal: The Myth of Racial Profiling

  http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_2_the_myth.html
  Heather MacDonald says there's no credible evidence that racial profiling exists, yet the crusade to abolish it threatens a decade's worth of crime-fighting success.

• Lamberth Consulting, LLC

  http://www.lamberthconsulting.com/
  Working with state and local governments, law enforcement agencies and civil rights groups to assess and deter racial profiling practices.

• PBS: Is Racial Profiling Real?

  http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript967.html
  Transcript of the Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, Heather MacDonald, Paul Butler, and David Cole. Includes biographies of guests and discussion forum.

• Racial Profiling at the Airport

  http://slate.com/?id=116347
  Michael Kinsley discusses the discrimination people are afraid to be against.

• Racial Profiling in America

  http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/racial-profiling
  American Civil Liberties Union page on racial profiling and "driving while Black".

• Racial Profiling: Racially Biased Law Enforcement A National Problem

  http://www.csdp.org/news/news/profiling.htm
  Summaries of news, documents, and links.

• Racial Profiling: The View From A Squad Car

  http://www.fredoneverything.net/yyProfiles.shtml
  Fred Reed discusses types of profiling, concluding that racial profiling is not discrimination.

• The New Face Of Racial Profiling

  http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20011010.html
  Includes commentary on how terrorism affects the debate.

 

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