Racial Profiling – Tennessee
"Racial profiling is one, not effective, two, not fair, and, three, not conducive to good relations between law enforcement and communities. It should be a three-strikes-and-you're-out policy."
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Suha Dabbouseh, AIUSA
How Tennessee Rates in Protection From Racial Profiling
Current Tenessee law only bans racial profiling as it applies to subpeanas of pawn shop finger print records. This uniquely narrow racial profiling ban, does nothing to address the very real problem of police racially profiling local pedestrians and motorists. Moreover, Tennessee's only provision for ongoing data collection tyo monitor this problem was on a completely voluntary basis and expired in 2001. Thus local reform efforts have been stymied by a series of aenemic laws that refuse to seriously confront this problem that affects thousands of Tennesseans every year.Protection from racial profiling: Insufficient
Members of Congress supporting the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004:
Representative Harold E. Ford, Jr.