Policy - Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling

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Texts

Airport Profiling of People of Arab and Muslim Descent Greatly Decreased 21 December 2001
Attorney General Ashcroft: Prepared Remarks at the Conference of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies 26 July 2001
End Racial Profiling Act of 2001 Introduced in Congress June 6 06 June 2001
Attorney General Ashcroft: Remarks before the ASNE Luncheon 04 April 2001
Attorney General Ashcroft: News Conference on Racial Profiling 02 March 2001
President Bush: Memorandum on Racial Profiling 28 February 2001

Selected Texts Prior to 20 January 2001

The Clinton-Gore Administration: Combating Racial Profiling 9 June 1999
President Clinton's Executive Memorandum - Fairness in Law Enforcement: Collection of Data 9 June 1999
U.S. Department of Justice Proposal Responding to the Executive Memorandum on Fairness in Law Enforcement

Key Documents

U.S. Department of Justice. Contacts between the Police and the Public: Findings from the 1999 National Survey March 2001

Selected Key Documents Prior to 20 January 2001

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Revisiting Who Is Guarding the Guardians? A Report on Police Practices and Civil Rights in America November 2000
U.S. Department of Justice. A Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collections Systems: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned (Text) (PDF) November 2000
U.S. Department of Justice. Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 1999 February 2000
U.S. Department of Energy Task Force Against Racial Profiling. News Release; Final Report (PDF) 19 January 2000

Legislation

End Racial Profiling Act of 2001 (H.R. 2074) Introduced 06 June 2001
End Racial Profiling Act of 2001 (S. 989) Introduced 06 June 2001
Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act of 1999 (S. 821) Introduced 15 April 1999 - 106th Congress
Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act of 1999 (H.R. 1443) Introduced 15 April 1999 - 106th Congress. House Judiciary Committee report, 106-517, issued March 13, 2000 to accompany H.R. 1443, provides summary and background on need for legislation.

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