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New Report From ACLU And RWG Finds Racial Profiling Still Pervasive

By ACLU

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NEW YORK ? Widespread racial profiling by law enforcement agents as a result of Bush-era policies remains a pervasive problem throughout the United States, according to a report out today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rights Working Group (RWG). Government policies are a major cause of the disproportionate stopping and searching of racial minorities by law enforcement agencies, according to the report, which was submitted today to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).

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