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Racial Profiling is one of the top civil rights issues in the United States today. Across the country government officials, civil rights advocates, academics, law enforcement executives, and members of the general public are discussing this social issue. In June of 1999 President Clinton signed an Executive Order directing the Attorney General to develop a plan whereby Federal Agencies would begin to collect data on the race and gender of the people they stop to question or arrest. Federal legislation (The Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act of 2000, H.R. 1443, S.821.) that provides for the collection of data from traffic stops by federal officers has been introduced to both Houses in Congress in a bipartisan effort. In 2001, President Bush has directed Attorney General John Ashcroft to place Racial Profiling and Data Collection as a top Justice Department priority.
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Racial Profiling is any police or private security practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because of his or her race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. This occurs when police investigate, stop, frisk, search or use force against a person based on such characteristics instead of evidence of a person's criminal behavior. It often involves the stopping and searching of people of color for traffic violations, known as "DWB" or "driving while black or brown." Although normally associated with African Americans and Latinos, racial profiling and "DWB" have ... become shorthand phrases for police stops of Asians, Native Americans, and, increasingly after 9/11, Arabs, Muslims and South Asians.
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Various reports, such as the 2005 Kingston Data Collection Project, the 2003 Ontario Human Rights Commission report on Racial Profiling and the 2002 Toronto Star analysis of Toronto Police statistics have ... reported the same findings. They found that residents of African/Black origin receive harsher treatment than White residents, and are over represented in Police statistics of charges and arrests.
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The Report makes five recommendations to end DWB, including a call for the U.S. Department of Justice to end the use of racial profiling in federally funded drug interdiction programs. Specifically, the ACLU is calling for:
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MP Libby Davies has written to the current Cabinet Minister’s responsible to stop racial profiling in Canada. It has been more than a year since the goverment has been asked to respond to this issue and to date there has been no detailed and direct response. stopracialprofling.ca urges the Ministers responsible to respond in a timely manner.
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