Bill would allow profiling (New York)

[brooklynite]

June 9, 2006

State legislation proposed yesterday would allow law officers to consider race and ethnicity in identifying potential terrorism suspects - a move decried by a civil rights advocate.

The bill would allow "the use of race as one of many criteria in the war on terror," said Assemb. Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn). "Suicide bombers and terrorists fit a very specific intelligence profile, and race and ethnicity is very much a part of that profile."

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The proposed bill drew the wrath of Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

"Racial and ethnic profiling has been shown time and time again to be not only anathema to principles of equality, but it's bad law enforcement," she said in a telephone interview.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stterr094774564jun09,0,6567493.story?coll=ny-statenews-headlines

[ret5hd]

1. Like this?...

what profile does he fit? Military, racist, white, and christian...LOCK 'EM UP!

[leveymg]

4. Timmy or Dubya? I don't want to look at either of them, right now. eom

[lonestarnot]

2. Oh boy this is just soooo..... hmmmf.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. That's right. Turn NYC into Israel with its racial profiling.

What a tool.

[Eugene]

5. Dov Hikind has done this before.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1672566

Racial profiling is unconstitutional, it's bad policy,
but Dov Hikind supports it.

[RCinBrooklyn]

6. Dov Hikind is repulsive, hateful and a race-baiting zionist. Really.