On AlterNet: profiling

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "profiling"

Tale of Two Cities: NYPD's Racist Arrests Create Class War in New York

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. May 13, 2012.

For the NYPD's stats to add up, they'd have to have stopped every young, black man living in the city once--and then some.

Long Time Coming: Trayvon's Law

Jefferson Morley, Salon. April 18, 2012.

For the first time in a decade, Congress holds a hearing on anti-profiling legislation.

Bait and Switch: ICE Says Program Targets "Dangerous Criminals" but Casts Wide Net

Michele Waslin, Immigration Impact. October 2, 2009.

Critics say a key immigration enforcement program is based on widespread ethnic profiling.

Culture of Fear: Poetry Professor Becomes Terror Suspect

Kazim Ali, New America Media. April 24, 2007.

A poetry professor in a small college in the Northeast decides to recycle old manuscripts and becomes an object of suspicion.

Racist, Xenophobic Republicans Want to Revive Profiling to Circumvent TSA Screening

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, December 31, 1969.