Racial Profiling: Face the Truth

The Problem

Racial and religious profiling is a pervasive problem that affects many communities across the country. While traditionally thought of as targeting the African American community, profiling affects a broad range of communities, including Native American, African American, Latino, Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities. Not only is racial and religious profiling humiliating and degrading for the people subjected to it, it is unconstitutional, it is an ineffective law enforcement practice, and it damages community security.

The Solution

The Racial Profiling: Face the Truth campaign will build alliances amongst directly-affected communities, coordinate advocacy efforts and field activities, and educate and mobilize broad support for legislative and policy reforms. Organizations endorsing the campaign are endorsing the shared goals, objectives, and principles as outlined.

The campaign's principles are to:

• Promote understanding and collaboration among the many directly-affected communities fighting against racial and religious profiling;
• Recognize and combat all of the different forms of profiling as ineffective and violations of human rights;
• Connect the dots between traditional forms of racial profiling, profiling in the name of "national security" and profiling in the name of immigration enforcement, exposing the intersections and promoting common solutions;
• Promote understanding and build alliances between affected communities and those who serve to protect them; and
• Promote the human rights of all people regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, citizenship status, or other status.

Goals and Policy Objectives:

The goals of the Face the Truth campaign is to achieve commitments at all levels of government to ban all forms of racial and religious profiling by law enforcement.

The Face the Truth campaign has three policy objectives:

1. Secure passage of federal legislation to ban racial profiling - the "End Racial Profiling Act."
2. Revise the June 2003 Department of Justice Federal Guidance on Racial Profiling to eliminate the border and national security loophole, to include profiling based on religion and ethnic origin, and to ensure that the guidance is enforceable.
3. Eliminate Department of Homeland Security programs that result in racial profiling in immigration enforcement.

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