Thousands of media professionals attended the third annual "Unity: Journalists of Color Conference" Aug. 4 to 8 in Washington, DC's new convention center. A press conference held by the American Civil Liberties Union featured Charles Moose, the former police chief of Montgomery County, MD, who examined the growing abuses surrounding racial profiling. During the sniper attacks two years ago in the suburbs of Washington, Chief Moose said, he refused to engage in racial profiling and other tactics in his search for the killers, despite outside pressure.
Racial profiling is the reliance by law enforcement on race, ethnicity, national origin or religion in deciding whom to target for …