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Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell
Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell
Mary Ellen O'Connell
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Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell
Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell
Journal Articles
The Journal of the National Security Forum (JNSF) Board of Editors posed ten questions on national security to a group of national-security law experts. Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell’s answers to the ten questions are presented.
Henry Louis Gates And Racial Profiling: What's The Problem?, Bernard E. Harcourt
Henry Louis Gates And Racial Profiling: What's The Problem?, Bernard E. Harcourt
Faculty Scholarship
A string of recent studies has documented significant racial disparities in police stops, searches, and arrests across the country. The issue of racial profiling, however, did not receive national attention until the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., at his home in Cambridge. This raises three questions: First, did Sergeant Crowley engage in racial profiling when he arrested Professor Gates? Second, why does it take the wrongful arrest of a respected member of an elite community to focus the attention of the country? Third, why is racial profiling so pervasive in American policing?
The answers to these questions are …