Can His Plan End Racial Profiling?

[jade3000]

We don't hear a whole lot about ending racial profiling these days -- I mean really tackling the issue head on. It's brought up in immigration debates and temporarily during the Trayvon Martin case, but the arguments become about "Stand Your Ground", "path to citizenship", and so on. This article got me thinking that we need to focus explicitly on ending it:

Will Cuomo's plan help end it?
http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2012/06/10/can-cuomos-plan-end-racial-profiling-in-new-york/#.T9Trq9X2ZLc

In August 2001, the United States appeared poised to end the practice of racial profiling in law enforcement. In his inaugural State of the Union address six months earlier, President George W. Bush had declared 'It's wrong and we will end it in America.' Thirty-five states had passed or were in the process of passing laws addressing it. And Congress was considering an ambitious federal bill – the “End Racial Profiling Act of 2001” – that would have prevented law enforcement from ever using race as a factor in determining whom to stop. ... But after two hijacked planes flew into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2011, 'the whole discussion stopped, ' says David Harris a University of Pittsburgh law professor.

On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan that some say could reduce the disproportionately high number of young black and Latino men stopped-and-frisked. Cuomo wants do that by further decriminalizing the possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana. ... Advocates and activists who've been involved in the battles to reform drug policy and the battle to reform stop-and-frisk say there's no question that there's value in decriminalizing smaller amounts of marijuana. ... But many raise questions about how a plan like Cuomo's could actually provide relief.

[MLKJrInspired]

1. Needs to be broader to really tackle the issue

The Cuomo plan is ok for what it is, but it needs to be broader to really tackle issue.

Btw, interesting read -- I didn't know much about law enforcement's various positions in this battle.