National police union calls on Trump to reverse the ban on racial profiling
Source: RawStory
ELIZABETH PREZA
19 DEC 2016 AT 13:29 ET
Th National Fraternal Order of Police issued a statement suggesting a number of policy proposals for the incoming President-Elect Donald J. Trump, including among them, a request to “reverse or amend the broad, Bush-era ban on racial profiling.”
President George W. Bush issued guidelines in July 2003 barring federal agents from using race or ethnicity as a factor in their investigations, although the policy carved out “narrow” circumstances in situations where federal agents were trying to “identify terrorist threats and stop potential catastrophic attack.”
Per the Fraternal Order of Police website, the organization views racial profiling as a “statistical disparity,” arguing legislation places the burden on “law enforcement agency to somehow prove itself innocent of engaging in the unlawful use of race in its procedures and practices.” The organization also takes issue with the protection of “racial and ethnic minorities,” thereby “excluding members of other races.”
Trump has indicated he would take a much less hard-lined approach than his predecessors with regard to racial profiling, arguing as recently as September that police need more leeway to investigate suspects on the basis of their race.
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Guild here, but not for several years. Got out of the industry while the getting was good.