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Racial profiling across the nation

Philadelphia city council members reject calls to revive stop-and-frisk policing

Philadelphia city council members reject calls to revive stop-and-frisk policing

Philadelphia city council members reject calls to revive stop-and-frisk policing

  Philadelphia agreed to end stop-and-frisk policing in 2011 under a federal consent decree. In 2022, some people have advocated bringing it back to stem record gun violence. Read the statement of three city council members who object.  

Many police officers who kill unarmed people do not face criminal conviction.

Philadelphia city council members reject calls to revive stop-and-frisk policing

Philadelphia city council members reject calls to revive stop-and-frisk policing

One recent example: A jury in Texas acquitted a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Black man as he walked away, according to the Texas Rangers who arrested the officer.  

"Banking while Black" can be humiliating

Philadelphia city council members reject calls to revive stop-and-frisk policing

 Joe Morrow, a Black customer, was accused of fraud while trying to cash his paycheck at US Bank in Minneapolis. The manager called the police, who handcuffed Morrow. They later informed him that his anger had "made him look guilty." Read the story at the Spokesman Recorder.

What happened when a crime-ridden city broke up its police department?

The police in Texas are breaking 20-year-old laws meant to prevent racial profiling

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Camden, New Jersey, disbanded its corrupt police force in 2012. The aims were to reduce crime and help residents feel safer. It worked. Read the story on CNN.

The police in Texas are breaking 20-year-old laws meant to prevent racial profiling

The police in Texas are breaking 20-year-old laws meant to prevent racial profiling

The police in Texas are breaking 20-year-old laws meant to prevent racial profiling

  The police in Texas are required to collect data on the race of the people they stop--a key to knowing what needs to change to prevent profiling--but they're falling short, according to investigative journalists. Learn more from KXAN, the NBC affiliate in Austin.

The governor of Minnesota is backing police department reforms

The police in Texas are breaking 20-year-old laws meant to prevent racial profiling

The police in Texas are breaking 20-year-old laws meant to prevent racial profiling

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 Governor Tim Walz is asking state legislators to let the attorney general oversee investigations of officer-involved deaths, improve police oversight and disciplinary procedures, and fund community groups to improve public safety. 

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