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Eugene

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Thu Sep 18, 2014, 02:04 PM Sep 2014

U.S. attorney general announces grant to study police racial profiling

Source: Reuters

U.S. attorney general announces grant to study police racial profiling

BY JULIA EDWARDS
WASHINGTON Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:55am EDT

(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday announced the award of a $4.75 million three-year grant to a group of educational and research organizations to study arrest data in five U.S. cities and implement changes to combat any findings of racial profiling.

The cities, which have yet to be chosen, will serve as pilots to test strategies for building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, Holder said.

Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of Michael Brown last month revived the importance of the initiative, Holder said, which originally had been announced in April.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/18/us-usa-justice-ferguson-study-idUSKBN0HD1YC20140918
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U.S. attorney general announces grant to study police racial profiling (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2014 OP
This study is needed Gothmog Sep 2014 #1
All part of Holders Wellstone ruled Sep 2014 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. All part of Holders
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 02:59 PM
Sep 2014

legacy tour. Talk is cheap,when are they going to hire some people to really do the job. Oh,that's right,he has 27 months to bring a case. It's called running the clock Mr. AG.

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