Racial Profiling on an “Industrial Scale”: FBI Using Census Data to

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Racial Profiling on an “Industrial Scale”: FBI Using Census Data to Map and Police Communities By Race


http://www.alternet.org/story/152850/racial_profiling_on_an_%E2%80%9Cindustrial_scale%E2%80%9D%3A_fbi_using_census_data_to_map_and_police_communities_by_race/

New documents obtained by the ACLU show that the FBI has for years been using Census data to “map” ethnic and religious groups suspected of being likely o commit certain types of crimes.

Much is still not known about the apparent large-scale effort in racial profiling, partly because the documents the ACLU obtained through public records requests are heavily redacted.

The FBI maintains that the mapping program is designed to “better understand the communities that are potential victims of the threats,” but the ACLU says it is plainly unconstitutional.

To learn more about the FBI program, its implications for civil liberties and the questions that remain unanswered, I spoke to Michael German, policy counsel at the ACLU’s Washington office and a former FBI agent.

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1. That's nothing compared to "The Program" which intel agencies have in place

The FBI Census profiling is just one tiny component of a comprehensive warrantless terrorism, criminal and subversion profiling program run by NSA and DHS. Everything from credit records to your DU posts have been crunched into a TQ (Terrorist Quotient) that assigns millions of Americans who have committed no crimes into categories for closer monitoring and surveillance.

Welcome to the New American Police State.

[marmar]

2. k/r