Racial Profiling of Muslims
Web Resources
Links provide an overview/definition of racial profiling and selected cases.
- Racial Profiling: National Institute of JusticeThe National Institute of Justice, a part of the U.S. Department of Justice offers a definition of racial profiling.
- What Is Racial Profiling?Encyclopedic definition of racial profiling.
- ProCon.orgThis page offers two sides of the debate; should racial profiling be accepted as a law enforcement practice?
- A Year After Trayvon Martin Death, Families ReflectThis article offers an analysis on the Trayvon Martin case. This is the case when a Black 17-year old teenager, was gunned down for what many believed because of racial profiling.
- Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt'This article details (in graphic language) how three plainclothes New York City police officers stopped, questioned and frisked a Harlem teenager named Alvin.
- Bronx Teacher Testifies In Stop-And-Frisk TrialThis article reports how an assistant teacher in the Bronx testified that he had just stepped out for his lunch break and was walking back to school with a clear bag containing a sandwich, when he was accosted by a pair of plain clothes cops.
- Feds Accuse North Carolina Sheriff's Office of Racial ProfilingThis article describes a Justice Department investigation which confirmed what many Latinos say they've known: Traffic stops by Alamance County sheriff's deputies were part of a pattern of racial profiling aimed at searching for illegal immigrants.
- Huffington Post: Racial ProfilingThis site offers a series of articles on the topic of racial profiling.
- ACLU: Racial ProfilingThis site provide links to resources which looks into the practices of racial profiling.