Monday, June 27, 2005

Ethnic profiling by police in Europe / Justice Initiative, June 2005

http://www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2?res_id=102731
"This issue of Justice Initiatives focuses on ethnic profiling, the inappropriate use by law enforcement of ethnic characteristics in identifying criminal suspects, in Europe. Ample evidence of the practice exists, from the wholesale targeting of Roma neighborhoods in central Europe to the counter-productive reliance on profiling to fight terrorism in Northern Ireland and, more recently, France, Germany, Sweden, and elsewhere. This issue documents profiling by police in Europe, and explores the methods used in the United States and the United Kingdom to counter it."