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How to Build a More Effective Police Force – Gallup.com
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Justice Department issues a welcome expansion of the bar on profiling. But some loopholes remain (Daily Kos)
Under a new guidance issued Monday by the Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Extended rules already barring federal law enforcement from profiling people based on their race and ethnicity to include national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and sexual orientation. The department also expanded the ban on racial profiling to national security cases. You can read the guidance document here.
The new guidance expands on one barring racial profiling issued by the George W. Bush administration in 2003. The new rules have been in the works for five years. Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner cited remarks by an unnamed Justice Department official, who called the guidance a "signature accomplishment": “For the last several weeks, Attorney General Holder has diligently pressed for the revised policy to be finalized before he leaves office. […] During the last two weeks in particular, it has been the first item on the agenda each day in his morning senior staff meetings.”
Holder himself said in a statement:
> "Particularly in light of certain recent incidents we've seen at the local level and the widespread concerns about trust in the criminal justice process which so many have raised throughout the nation, …
