{"id":3979,"date":"2009-07-28T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2009-07-28T22:46:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:46:33","slug":"comparison-open-society-institute-report-on-police-racial-profiling-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3979","title":{"rendered":"Comparison: Open Society Institute report on police racial profiling in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Tangental, but germane to the current discussions happening here. \u00a0This year the Open Society Institute in New York City released a report about the costs and effects of racial profiling in France. I think Japan and the NPA could learn something from this as well. Courtesy of Brad. \u00a0Full report at<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.soros.org\/initiatives\/osji\/articles_publications\/publications\/search_20090630\/search_20090630.Web.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Recommendations from the Executive Summary follow. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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To Political and Legal Authorities:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Publicly acknowledge ethnic profiling by French police as a problem.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Encourage and fund research to determine the magnitude of the problem in various localities across France.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Undertake a broad review of the legal standards, policies and practices that underlie patterns of ethnic profiling.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Modify Article 78.2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to include an explicit prohibition on discrimination by all police officers; to clarify and strengthen the grounds for reasonable suspicion that will serve as justification for police stops; and to clearly specify the circumstances under which searches or frisks may be carried out.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Maintain and support specialized police oversight bodies like the National Commission on Security Ethics (Commission Nationale de D\u00e9ontologie de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9) and equip them with sufficient resources (including financial) to monitor and analyze complaints data for possible discriminatory practices in stop and search and other forms of indirect discrimination.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Work with local communities and associations on issues of non-discrimination to discuss ethnic profiling and develop policy responses grounded in consensus.<\/p>\n

To French Law Enforcement Authorities:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Review the operational guidelines and procedures that regulate police stop and search activities to determine whether they provide adequate protections against discrimination and ethnic profiling, and to ensure that they conform to the principles of non-discrimination. Provide specific guidance and training for police officers on ethnic profiling issues, including permissible versus impermissible uses of appearance in targeting identity checks.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Require that officers explain the reason for identity check to all persons they stop, and provide all persons who are stopped with information on police and citizens\u2019 rights and responsibilities.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Regularly analyze stop records, and utilize the results in operational briefings and supervision of patrol officers as well as in the targeting of police operations that rely on identity checks to make sure that these powers are used in a fair and effective manner.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Make public statistical data on identity checks, stops, and searches and their outcomes, and use this as the basis for outreach and dialogue with local residents to discuss the nature and reasons for any disproportionality that appears, and to seek alternative approaches based on agreements about local safety concerns.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Review, and if necessary, strengthen the supervision of patrol officers\u2019 use of identity checks, stops, and searches on grounds of fairness and effectiveness.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Review all cases of r\u00e9bellion or outrages (the French equivalents of \u201cinsulting an officer\u201d or \u201cresisting arrest\u201d) to ensure that they do not reflect a pattern of repeated hostile encounters on the part of any individual officers or squads of the National Police, the National Gendarmerie, the Customs Police, and other law enforcement agencies. Where patterns are detected, they must be addressed through policy change, training, re-assignment and\/or disciplinary measures as appropriate to the severity of the problem.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Introduce mechanisms to obtain feedback from citizens on the quality of police services such as comment boxes, surveys, qualitative monitoring by community groups and the like to identify both good and bad practices.<\/p>\n

Published by
\nOpen Society Institute
\n400 West 59th Street
\nNew York, NY 10019 USA
\n www.soros.org<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information contact:
\nOpen Society Justice Initiative
\n400 West 59th Street
\nNew York, NY 10019 USA
\n www.justiceinitiative.org<\/a><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tangental, but germane to the current discussions happening here. This year the Open Society Institute in New York City released a report about the costs and effects of racial profiling in France. I think Japan and the NPA could learn something from this as well. Two recommendations:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Review the operational guidelines and procedures that regulate police stop and search activities to determine whether they provide adequate protections against discrimination and ethnic profiling, and to ensure that they conform to the principles of non-discrimination. Provide specific guidance and training for police officers on ethnic profiling issues, including permissible versus impermissible uses of appearance in targeting identity checks.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Require that officers explain the reason for identity check to all persons they stop, and provide all persons who are stopped with information on police and citizens\u2019 rights and responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5,11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-human-rights","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}