Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Abstract
The events of September 11, 2001, have sparked a fierce debate over racial profiling. Many who readily condemned the practice a year ago have had second thoughts. In the wake of September 11, the Department of Justice initiated a program of interviewing thousands of men who arrived in this country in the past two years from countries with an al Qaeda presence – a program that some attack as racial profiling, and others defend as proper law enforcement. In this Essay, Professors Gross and Livingston use that program as the focus of a discussion of the meaning of racial profiling, its use in a variety of contexts, and its relationship to other police practices that take race or ethnicity into account.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Law and Race
Recommended Citation
Samuel R. Gross & Debra A. Livingston,
Racial Profiling Under Attack,
102
Colum. L. Rev.
1413
(2002).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3472
Comments
This article originally appeared in 102 Colum. L. Rev. 1413 (2002). Reprinted by permission.