Obama's New Racial Profiling Rules

By Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Fri Dec 05, 2014 at 10:33:43 PM EST
Tags: racial profiling (all tags)

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Eric Holder will announce the Obama Administration's new racial profiling rules next week. There will be curbs on racial profiling by law enforcement, including the DEA.

Exempted will be most of the Department of Homeland Security (TSA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection)which will still be allowed to use racial profiling at airports and at the border.

Apparently, the plan was also to ban DHS from racial profiling, but they objected and were for the most part exempted. [More...]

Holder today:

“In the coming days, I will announce updated Justice Department guidance regarding profiling by federal law enforcement,” he said in a speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. “This will institute rigorous new standards and robust safeguards to help end racial profiling, once and for all. This new guidance will codify our commitment to the very highest standards of fair and effective policing.”

The FBI will get one exemption -- they will still be allowed to use mapping:

The FBI to continue the policy of “mapping” — under which demographic data about particular ethnic groups is used to designate a particular neighborhood for possible investigations and to recruit informants.

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So, I guess this means (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by fishcamp on Sat Dec 06, 2014 at 07:16:00 AM EST

Homeland Security, and the rest of the Feds, can still zoom around and disturb the fish, and the fishermen, looking for evil Cubans floating around down here. Also, it sounds like the surveillance balloon "Fat Albert" will remain active down in the lower keys. Can they see me standing on a Grouper one inch too short, to make it legal?

I think what is persuasive is (5.00 / 9) (#5)
by Anne on Sat Dec 06, 2014 at 08:48:30 AM EST

(1) that Darren Wilson didn't belong in the uniform of a police officer, and

(2) that you'd probably be much happier shilling your theories on jim's blog.

Here's the thing: you may be able to string intelligible sentences together, but your facility with the English language doesn't disguise the essential ugliness of the message and point of view that has been an ongoing theme in your comments.

I have no idea why you think the majority of the people who comment here would have any interest in being persuaded by your offensive arguments of white superiority; you aren't converting people as much as you are hardening their belief that it is people like you who are the real problem.

Heres (5.00 / 2) (#6)
by CaptHowdy on Sat Dec 06, 2014 at 08:55:48 AM EST

A link

You might actually be able to post a comment he won't delete.

Look forward to reading the stimulating exchange of "ideas"


Why didn't he belong in the uniform? (none / 0) (#16)
by McBain on Sat Dec 06, 2014 at 11:23:09 AM EST

Are you confusing Wilson with the officer who shot Tamir Rice? I thought Wilson had a fairly clean record as a cop? And the shooting was found to be justified by a grand jury.


: You might want to read up on this stuff (5.00 / 1) (#17)
by CaptHowdy on Sat Dec 06, 2014 at 11:27:01 AM EST