An analysis by the Cape Cod Times, Worcester Telegram & Gazette and USA Today has found that Massachusetts legislators, despite…
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“We have never done racial discrimination,” said Major Robert van Kapel, spokesperson for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee.
Many police agencies collect data, but few chiefs actually use the data to inform policing strategies in their communities, says Alejandro Del Carmen, a criminologist who is a veteran police trainer. In a discussion with TCR’s Isidoro Rodriguez about his new book, Del Carmen says the failure to take data seriously has created a climate where excessive force and endemic racism continue to prevail in American policing.
“Black Americans risk being targeted by law enforcement, [by] the employees of retail establishments, or [by] their own neighbors for wearing masks” during the pandemic, reports a new paper in the Washington and Lee Law Review.
For many years, the Missouri Attorney General has reported that police pull black motorists over at significantly higher rates than whites. A lawsuit challenges police departments’ refusal to supply underlying data.
Traffic stops by sheriff’s deputies in the Phoenix area have dropped by more than half since a federal judge found the department was racially profiling Latinos in then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns.
An Amnesty International report says half of a sample of Belgian police officers surveyed identified the use of racial profiling by local police forces as a problem. While government officials pushed back against the report, the human rights organization said its results constitute a “cause for concern.”
Under a new law, starting with the Los Angeles Police Department and other large law enforcement agencies in July 2018, officers will collect information detailing race, gender and other demographic details every time police pull someone over in their cars or otherwise detain them.
Chief Steve Anderson admits a racial disparity in traffic stops, but says that “numbers cannot tell you the reasons, good or bad, the disparity exists.”
Tuesday’s session is designed as a “robust discussion” of allegations of biased policing, what incoming officers learn about bias during their time in the academy and how supervisors are trained to guard against it. The LAPD has prepared a 143-page report for the meeting.