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ACLU Organizes Racial Profiling
Discussion at Police Conference
In an effort to educate police officers about the importance of data collection at all police stops, the ACLU is helping to organize a "Driving While Black" panel discussion at the National Black Police Association's annual Education and Training Conference April 18-22 at the Wyndham Hotel in Miami.
The panel will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. April 18 to discuss the discriminatory practice of substituting skin color for evidence as a basis of suspicion by law enforcement officials.
The ACLU will also highlight racial profiling cases, and discuss legislation sponsored by Senator Kendrick Meek requiring the collection of racial data in police stops of motorists.
In Miami-Dade County, Maria Rivas, who is coordinating the ACLU-FL's statewide Campaign Against Racial Profiling, has been invited to represent the ACLU on an advisory board overseeing the countywide study tracking race-based stops by Miami-Dade Police.
