(The Root) — Though the New York City Police Department has steadfastly denied that its controversial stop-and-frisk program constitutes racial profiling, today it appears that New York’s finest are ...

A longtime former Valley police officer who helped write the provision in Senate Bill 1070 that requires cops to ask for immigration status in certain situations, has no concerns about racial ...

Last week, we reported on “Secure Communities,” a new national program that links local detention centers into a national database of illegal aliens. In our story, critics of the plan said it might ...

(The Root) — “Six or seven years ago, I was sitting around writing a piece for public consumption. I thought, ‘What I could use here are some stats on racial profiling and police brutality.’ There ...

Rarely is it pleasant to get stopped by law enforcement. Yes, I admit to getting two speeding tickets in one day in the 1980s, but I paid heavily for those blunders. The officers — CHP on the first ...

Bucks center John Henson alleged he was the victim of racial profiling at a Milwaukee-area jewelry store, which prompted an apology from the store owner, who said the incident was a misunderstanding.

This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting. Rep. Charlotte DiLorenzo knows it as “the ...

The over-policing and raid of a so-called blind pig sparked the 1967 race rebellion in Detroit. Subsequently, in the 1970s, Detroit police had the notorious STRESS program where undercover cops ...