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Books : The Color of Guilt & Innocence: Racial Profiling and Police Practices in America
The only book of its kind to receive national acclaim by scholars, special interest groups, and law enforcement organizations as the most comprehensive book ever written on the subject of racial profiling by police. The book is unique in that it objectively explores this controversial subject from the perspective of victims, civil rights advocates, and law enforcement officers.
Kenneth Meeks,
“Driving While Black: What To Do If You Are A Victim of Racial Profiling,”
Broadway Books, May 16, 2000It happens every day: at a seemingly routine traffic stop, a cop approaches your car with his gun drawn. You're checking out some clothes in your favorite store and notice you're being followed by security. Dressed in a business suit with arm outstretched, you watch as dozens of unoccupied cabs pass you by. A woman clutches her purse and hurriedly crosses the street when she sees you walking down the sidewalk towards her. For many African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, and Asian Americans, such incidents are known as DWBs -- Driving While Black -- or examples of racial profiling. Kenneth Meeks's well-researched and disturbing book details the origins, practices, consequences, and solutions to this problem. 'From a legal point of view racial profiling is tricky to prove,' he writes. 'Seldom do investigators recover a smoking gun with fingerprints on it. This is why a national movement has been launched by politicians of color and civil rights leaders to mandate that law enforcement agencies keep statistics of whom they are stopping, questioning, detaining, and searching.' There are numerous case histories in Driving While Black, including Samuel Johnson's terrifying highway encounter with the New Jersey State Police, Amy Bowllan's Amtrak nightmare in Baltimore, and Yvette Bradley's airline ordeal, all of which involved racial profiling on a number of levels. Along with the instructive horror stories, Meeks includes nonconfrontational tips on dealing with profiling: stay calm, carry identification at all times, take names, never run, and never go to the same precinct that violated your rights to fill out a complaint form. Informed and impassioned, Meeks's book is both a practical guide and a call to arms. --Eugene Holley Jr.
Book Description:
A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something. Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman's gun make the six o'clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that whiz by only to be seen stopping for 'safer'-looking people just up the block; being asked for multiple pieces of identification when making purchases with credit cards; being followed around a department store by salespeople and security while never being asked if they need any assistance; being detained for hours and extensively searched in an airport or train station--Driving While Black clearly defines the system officially known as CARD (class, age, race, dress) and offers advice about how to handle potentially life-threatening situations with the police, as well as recourse for readers who suspect their civil rights have been denied due to racial profiling.A book written to save lives, Driving While Black is not just for people of color, but for anyone who likes to wear a baseball cap, baggy jeans, sneakers, and a tee shirt and finds they are often treated like a 'suspect.'
Books : Racial Profiling: From Rhetoric to Reason - April 21, 2005Book Description:
The first and only truly objective book to move the racial profiling controversy from its current rhetorical base into a reasoned argument. Racial Profiling focuses on the scientific investigation of racial profiling without alternative political or social agendas, devoting equal attention to the multiple perspectives of this controversial topic. This book’s scholarly approach presents the topic in an objective way, facilitating learning and making readers more informed consumers of the research. Features the most comprehensive literature review of what we know and what we don’t know about the extend of racial profiling?identifies the seven most important research questions within the controversy and discusses each one at length. For political leaders, police administrators, training academy instructors, scholars, and anyone in the criminal justice field.
Books: Brotherhood of Corruption:
A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling
by: Juan Antonio Juarez | August 01, 2004Book Description:
A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city’s police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer because he wants to make a difference in gang-infested neighborhoods; but, as this book reveals, he ends up a corrupt member of the most powerful gang of all—the Chicago police force. Juarez shares the horrific indiscretions he witnessed during his seven years of service, from the sexually predatory officer, X, who routinely stops beautiful women for made-up traffic offenses and flirts with domestic violence victims, to sadistic Locallo, known on the streets as Locoman, who routinely stops gang members and beats them senseless. Working as a narcotics officer, Juarez begins to join his fellow officers in crossing the line between cop and criminal, as he takes advantage of his position and also becomes a participant in a system of racial profiling legitimized by the war on drugs. Ultimately, as Juarez discusses, his conscience gets the better of him and he tries to reform, only to be brought down by his own excesses. From the perspective of an insider, he tells of widespread abuses of power, random acts of brutality, and the code of silence that keeps law enforcers untouchable.
New Jersey State Police, Consent Decree,
United States of America v. State of New Jersey and
Division of State Police and New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, December 30,1999.
-- http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/split/documents/jerseysa.htmOakland Police Department,
“Promoting Cooperative Strategies to Reduce Racial Profiling:
A Technical Guide, July 2004.
-- http://www.aclunc.org/dwb/040824-oaklandprofilingstudy.pdfPolice Assessment Resource Center,
“Racial Profiling” Issue Paper, March 2002.
PDF: http://Parc.info/client_files/Articles/4%20-%20Racial%20Profiling%20%282002%29.pdf |Police Executive Research Forum
and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services,
U.S. Department of Justice,
“By the Numbers: A Guide for Analyzing Race Data from Vehicle Stops,” 2004.
-- http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1477Police Executive Research Forum and
the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice,
“Racially Biased Policing: A Principled Response,” 2001.
-- http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1598Police Foundation,
“Racial Profiling, the State of the Law,” updated March 2005.
-- http://www.policefoundation.org/U.S. Department of Justice,
“A Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collection Systems
- Promising Practices and Lessons Learned,” November 2000.
-- http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/bja/184768.pdfU.S. Department of Justice,
“Policy Guidance to Ban Racial Profiling,” June 2003.
-- http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2003/June/03_crt_355.htmSamuel Walker,
“Police Interactions with Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Resolving the Contradictions
Between Allegations and Evidence,” Police Executive Research Forum, 2000.
-- www.policeforum.orgSamuel Walker,
“Internal Benchmarking for Traffic Stop Data:
an Early Intervention System Approach, A Discussion Paper,” April 2005.
-- http://www.policeaccountability.org/internalb.pdfRelevant Links/Resources
American Civil Liberties Union racial profiling page
-- http://www.aclu.org/RacialEquality/RacialEqualitylist.cfm?c=133 |David Harris, Profiles In Injustice
-- http://www.profilesininjustice.com/ |Northeastern University, Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center
-- http://www.racialprofilinganalysis.neu.edu/ |See Monitoring for more information
regarding reforms addressing allegations of
racial profiling by police as required by “pattern or practice” agreements.