Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio goes on trial for defying court order on immigration enforcement
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal trial opened Monday over his defiance of the courts in traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, marking the most aggressive effort to hold the former lawman of metro Phoenix accountable for tactics that critics say racially…
Poet Franny Choi pictures a world without police
What world a world without police look like? Poet Franny Choi’s work attempts to answer that question.
Yale police aim gun at columnist’s son, turn spotlight on racial profiling on campus
The debate over racial profiling -- already a hot topic on many college campuses -- gained renewed attention this weekend when Yale University police briefly detained a black male student Saturday evening.
White House issues guidelines to ban racial and religious profiling
The policy, which expands decade-old guidelines established under the Bush administration, also will require new training and data collection.
Federal agents who guard the border and screen passengers at airports would be exempt from new racial profiling guidelines that must be observed by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Those guidelines are being announced by the Obama administration…
The Justice Department will revise its stance on racial profiling. That revision will restrict officials from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations.
The George Zimmerman verdict has provoked passionate debate about legal justice and race in the U.S. Judy Woodruff gets reaction from Christina Swarns of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb, Jonathan Turley of the George Washington…
Justice Department Reviews Possibility of Civil Rights Case Against Zimmerman…
The Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on immigrants.
