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How Much Does The Press Care About Race and Policing?

October 8, 2015 By marthews

On October 7, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature held a marathon hearing on "Protected Classes. Privacy, and Data Collection Legislation". To be fair, Boston.com and the Boston Herald both reproduced … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, boston-herald, fourth-amendment, judiciary committee, racial-profiling

Boston Police Have a Racially Biased Policing Problem, and a Golden Opportunity to Reform

October 9, 2014 By ACLUm blog

During the summer of 2011, then-19-year-old Ivan Richiez was robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by two men in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. Bruised and bloodied, Ivan walked home passed the local Boston Police Department … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-police, boston-police-department, police, police-brutality, racial-justice, racial-profiling, racism, stop-and-frisk

CA prisons on brink of collapse – is Massachusetts next in line?

August 20, 2009 By AmberPaw

LA Times Reports Governor Schwarzenegger warned today that the entire California prison system is on the brink of collapse.  The governor and his corrections chief, Matt Cate, walked through the destruction at a housing unit for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: california, chino, cruel-and-unusual-punishment, incarceration, massachusetts, prison, racial-profiling, rate-of-incarceration

“Racial Profiling Is Alive And Well”

July 22, 2009 By ACLUm blog

This incident itself is an opening to the issue of racial profiling.  Here are links to information about two other recent, prominent cases: http://www.aclum.org/news/2007... http://www.aclum.org/docket/va... The first involves the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, gates, race, racial-profiling

ARRESTED – Professor Henry Lewis Gates of Harvard arrested for entering his own home

July 21, 2009 By AmberPaw

Professor Henry Lewis Gates of Harvard was arrested in his own house, on his own front porch on July 15, 2009.  A white bystander noticed him forcing open his own door, which was stuck, and called police.   Detailed Harvard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: comm.-v.-lora, disorderly, harvard, henry-lewis-gates, racial-profiling

63% of the juveniles in lock ups are minority – ACLU flunks the Bay State

December 10, 2007 By AmberPaw

For the whole report, go to: http://www.aclu.org/intlhumanr... You can see their results for most states. For Massachusetts: The study also found fault with what it called state inaction on the disproportionate rate that children of color … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, disparities-in-sentencing, juvenile-justice, racial-profiling, racism

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