Congressman seeks ban on profiling

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - A black congressman who claims he was racially profiled by Chicago police last month pushed for legislation Thursday that would ban the practice.

Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., called racial profiling "one of the most sinister issues that exists in American life."

In November, two white officers pulled Davis over and gave him a traffic ticket alleging he swerved over the center line, which Davis denied doing.

"I know that I'm getting up in age a little bit, but I'm not so old that if I weave, I don't know that I'm weaving," Davis, 66, said at a Capitol Hill news conference. The real reason he was pulled over, Davis asserted, was that he and three other black men were in a car on a deserted street after midnight


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[izquierdista]

1. Quality control for cops

Citizens groups need to set out decoys to catch cops in the act and document these practices. If cops had to answer for this behavior with unpaid suspensions, denial of advancement, pay reductions, remedial training, or loss of job, you can bet that the behaviors would stop immediately. If decoys are good enough to catch prostitutes and drug dealers, why not catch the bad cops too?

[pleah]

2. That's a great idea.

It needs to be put in place in every state. They kill people in MS. The cops beat a man to death in the jail booking room, the Feds are still investigating other cases. People who get hauled in on DUIs and other minor offenses "commit suicide" according to officials.