“DOJ’s review of the Ferguson police department is deeply troubling. Racial profiling is simply wrong. It doesn’t work, it wastes valuable resources and diminishes the willingness of targeted communities from trusting and working with police when the need is real,” said Senator Cardin. “The blatant abuse of power and racial targeting by Ferguson’s police are further proof of the need for a national standard that prohibits racial and discriminatory profiling by law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels. We need to better educate more of our law enforcement officials in the differences between specific suspect descriptions and sweeping generalizations or profiling that wastes valuable resources. Racial profiling is un-American. It has no place within the values of our country. The people of Ferguson, and other communities across the country, have endured painful lessons of how such actions turn communities against the partnerships needed to keep our neighborhoods safe.
“We need a uniform definition of racial profiling so that law enforcement can concentrate on investigating real crimes and real leads, and men and women across the country can feel secure that they are not being pulled over or harassed by law enforcement solely based on their race, religion, national origin, or ethnicity. Beyond Ferguson, the vast majority of law enforcement officials work with professionalism, diligence, and fidelity to the rule of law. But racial profiling is tolerated in far too many states and too entrenched into the fabric of some police department cultures. We need to end this bad policy now.”
Racial profiling is defined in a standard, consistent definition as the practice of a law enforcement agent relying on race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin as a factor in their investigations and activities. Senator Cardin’s legislation, the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA), creates an exception for the use of these factors where there is trustworthy information, relevant to the locality and time frame, which links persons of a particular race, ethnicity, or national origin to an identified incident or scheme.
16 comments:
HOW about the American Africans stop rioting until proper results come out and also pull your pants up and stop playing the knockout game you wonder why people have zero respect for you.
Ok.......profiling based upon race has been addressed by every appellate court imaginable. In certain circumstances race can be used when used as a descriptor- in much the same way as clothing color, but profiling based on race is absolutely a no no.
I think it would be prudent at this point to not police the city of Ferguson at all. I mean if the population is primarily black and you're called a racist if you arrest someone who may be breaking the law but is black, then why bother?
What do they do in counties like PG.....where almost everyone is a minority?
If a group commits the majority of the crimes - it's not profiling, it's good law enforcement procedure!
If "Claude Cooper from Cleveland" had been in the group that hijacked the jetliners on 9/11, that would have blown the profile of the muslime terrorists.....
Race card!
No better than Sharpton. The deceased broke the law in Furgeson, not the PD
Ban all you want. Racial profiling will continue to be the number one reason for police contact without being called.
I used to drive all over the east coast. Nearly every time a young African-American was pulled over the cops would have everyone out and search the car.
As a white kid, I have been pulled over after a couple beers, pulled over with weed smoke in the car, even stopped doing donuts in a snowy lot and my car has never been search and I've never been arrested. So when I hear claims that blacks are "more criminal" it really pisses me off. I know if I were black I would be in prison simply because of the fact that the justice system would treat me COMPLETELY different. If you are black you are more likely to get stopped, more likely to get charged, more likely to get convicted.
Is this the same cardin that motored by thousands of citizen terrorists during the health care debate, in towson? Hey, furgeson, missouri, we have you next representative!! We'll even pay the one way ticket.
more effective would be banning police depts. not only saving money from salaries and pensions, but hundreds of millions from lawsuit settlements to boot.
the new trend now is private police forces, which actually have some accountability to them.
Mick Jagger said a long time ago every cop is a criminal, and turns out most of them are criminals. Career criminals.
FTP
Cardin is a scumbag democrat. Who did the rioting in Ferguson, who piloted the planes on 911 and which culture is committing more crimes??? Sorry but the truth hurts. All the scumbags, like Cardin, do is make America more unsafe. He is pathetic and hopefully he'll soon retire just like our midget lesbian liberal is going to do. I don't know about the rest of folks, but they never did represent Maryland in a way that was conducive for all!
The police are being profiled.
2:15 really, I too am a white kid and have been searched many times and arrested and went to prison with more white kids. So now the question is who do you know or who are you SNITCHING on? I bet I know why^^^^^^^^^
Cardin, you can't legislate mood or feelings, which is what these officers on the ground have to use to save their own arses and break criminals' covers. You really can't understand this science when you cubbyhole it as "profiling".
You lose.
Go away.
I've got an idea!!
Ban Cardin
U.S. Senator
Get it!
How about let our police officers do their jobs instead of listening to liberal garbage from little punks like that.
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