Judge Orders Independent Overseer To Monitor Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

The controversial sheriff, self-described as “America’s toughest,” will now have his activities monitored for anti-Latino profiling.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

Last week a federal judge ruled that an independent monitor and a community advisory board must monitor the activities of 81-year-old Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for at least the next three years, to ensure that the Maricopa County Sheriff and his office do not racially profile anyone, specifically Latinos. Friday’s ruling, which was released on

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After Judge Rules NYPD Stop-And-Frisk Unconstitutional, Detroit Expands Its Own Program

The department recently announced an expansion of the program to allow officers in the department’s Traffic Unit to pull-over and question suspicious drivers.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke
The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, walks with demonstrators during a silent march to end the "stop-and-frisk" program in New York, Sunday, June 17, 2012. . (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The controversial police practice known as stop-and-frisk may be synonymous with the New York Police Department, but the policy has also been widely used by law enforcement in another U.S. city: Detroit. Hoping to prevent street crime, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the department has used the policy for “some years” and says he has no

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Federal Judge Says What We Already Know: Racial Profiling Is Unconstitutional

Racial profiling is too often looked upon as a minor nuisance but not as a form of victimization.

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes

A federal judge ruled Monday that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in the city. U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin said police had relied on what she called a "policy of indirect racial profiling" that led officers to routinely stop "Blacks and Hispanics who would

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What The Zimmerman Verdict Tells Blacks In America: Black Children Are Not Children

Black children, especially boys, are viewed as problems to be solved rather than potential to be released or promises to be fulfilled.

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes
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The news that’s being reported from every corner of the media is the rallies involving thousands of citizens across the country in the aftermath of the not-guilty-on-all-counts verdict in the Zimmerman trial. As much as this writer absolutely hates to appear to be jumping on the proverbial bandwagon, there are some stories that transcend that

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Anaheim, One Year Later: Tension Lingers Over Police Shooting Of Two Latinos

Thought it wasn’t the first officer-involved shootings in Anaheim, the protests that followed drew national attention.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

After the deaths of two Anaheim residents last July at the hands of two officers from the Anaheim Police Department, large protests occurred throughout the city for about two weeks as residents displayed their discontent at what they saw as police brutality and racial profiling of Latinos. Thought by police to be a gang member, unarmed 25-year-old

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California Police Department Enacts New Policy To Combat Racial Profiling

Officers will now be required to document the race of every person they stop and question — not just those they arrest.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

In order to determine whether police officers in San Jose, Calif., are racially profiling people on the street, officers will now be required to document the race of every person they stop and question -- not just those they arrest. Though the San Jose Police Department’s new racial profiling policy was first announced in 2011 by the department’s

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