DNC: Bush Administration Buries Negative Racial Profiling Report

[MaineDem]

For Immediate Release

August 24, 2005
Contact: Amaya Smith 202-863-8148

Bush Administration Buries Negative Racial Profiling Report

Washington -- The New York Times reported today that the Bush Administration
demoted the head of the Bureau of Justice Statistics after he refused to bury
statistics on racial disparities in how African Americans and Hispanics were
treated when stopped by the police. This is after the Administration promised
the NAACP in 2001 to work towards ending racial profiling. The report found
that African Americans and Hispanics were more than twice as likely as whites
to have their vehicle searched when stopped by the police. It also noted that
African American and Hispanic drivers were more likely to be subjected to
force, threat of force, and more likely to receive a ticket. 8/24/05]

"Once again the Administration's culture of corruption rears its ugly head. If
the Administration can't pay journalists to write favorable stories then
they'll just sweep the bad ones under the carpet. From misleading the American
people on the reasons for going war, to protecting political operatives like
Karl Rove and Scooter Libby the Administration continues to be dishonest with
the American people. Burying a report on racial profiling after promising to
take an active stance on the issue also shows just how empty the
Administration's rhetoric on reaching out to minorities really is," said DNC
Chairman Howard Dean.

BUSH IGNORES COMMITMENT TO END RACIAL PROFILING
"My agenda is based on the principle of equal opportunity and equal justice.
Yet, for too long, too many African-Americans have been subjected to the
unfairness of racial profiling. That's why earlier this year I asked Attorney
General John Ashcroft to develop specific recommendations to end racial
profiling. It's wrong, and it must be ended in America. the President to NAACP National Convention, 7/9/2001]
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1. God, is there one filament of decency in that man?

ONE FILAMENT? How can any one man be so evil and twisted?