The problem of racial profiling continues to be a significant national concern that demands priority attention, a new report released on Tuesday by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights states.
Entitled “Restoring a National Consensus: The Need to End Racial Profiling in America“, the report is an update of the earlier 2003 report, “Wrong Then, Wrong Now: Racial Profiling Before and After September 11, 2001.” The new report which examines the use of racial profiling in the street-level context in which it originally arose, goes on to examine the newer context of counterterrorism and the most recent context of immigration.
The report argues for the re-establishment of a national consensus against racial profiling in all it forms and makes several recommendations, including enactment of an anti-racial profiling statute.
In line with its report, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has called on Rep. Peter King (R-Iowa) to cancel a scheduled on Thursday on “radicalization of the American Muslim community and homegrown terrorists.” The hearing is a “disservice to the seriousness of the topic of ‘domestic terrorism,'” the coalition said.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States.
See “Restoring a National Consensus: The Need to End Racial Profiling in America” Here.
