Arizona's new illegal-immigration enforcement law has raised a host of concerns from critics, but none more prevalent than the pervasive fear that the law will lead police officers to target those who look Hispanic. Those concerns are not unfounded. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Arizona Republic (Arizona News)
Informative history of racial profiling in Arizona immigration enforcement, highlighting two incidents. The section on "preventing a recurrence" is shallow and brief.
This piece is very much written from the perspective of the police and government, and for that it loses points for fairness and sourcing. The reporters did a decent job explaining how the police responded to profiling allegations in the past, but they fail to survey the profiling victims, the Arizona hispanic community and advocacy groups, about whether they think profiling still occurs.
Important history regarding Arizona's past dealings with racial profiling. Absolutely relevant to SB 1070.
A team at the University of Cincinnati has analyzed the data every year since, and it concluded that there are too many variables to determine anything concrete about the ... More »
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