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...most important chapters in the book is “Covenant IV: Fostering Accountable Community-Centered Policing.” It contains facts about racial profiling (over 10 percent of black drivers were searched or had their vehicle searched during a traffic stop in 2002, compared to 3.5 percent of white drivers, according to a survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics) and police brutality (about 84 percent of the over 4000 acts of police violence against African Americans in 2001 were committed by white officers, according to a study by the International Association of Chiefs of Police...
...concrete steps that citizens and elected officials can take to decrease tensions between the police and the communities they serve. For example, it recommends that individuals get to know the officers who patrol their neighborhoods and that police forces “adequately train all officers in cultural sensitivity, racial profiling, and excessive force policies.” “The Covenant” is so valuable because it is filled with these kinds of practical strategies...
Because of the racial component. I almost forgot. She continued: “I think they are legacies of stereotypes and really portray native peoples in caricatures. It’s part of an American myth that we need to rectify.” Kind of like how George Washington’s mascot portrays colonial people in caricature and UMass promulgates the myth of the Minutemen? Where’s the rectification brigade on that...
There's an ethnic and racial range as well. Torres, who is Hispanic, can chat with naughty or nice kids in both English and Spanish. And the order has a number of black members, including Dion Sinclair of Atlanta. When Sinclair was on duty at the mall, white parents sometimes requested "the other Santa," while other local families waited in line for him. Young children don't seem to care much about Santa's skin color, he says. "For kids, it's about the guy bringing me toys...
...Scalia pointed to the problem in both districts of dividing students into only two categories, with no distinction made for Latino, Asian-American or multi-racial students. "What if a particular child's grandfather was white?" he asked. "There are many people of mixed blood." When told parents are allowed to self-identify with a particular racial group, Scalia said that that "seems like a big loophole...