Yale Law School Strikes Again! Clinic Sues East Haven Police for Racial Profiling

Racial profiling has long been a problem with law enforcement in the United States.  Here is the latest in a long string of lawsuits challenging the practice, which affects Latinos as well as African Americans.

David Rosen and the Worker and Immigrant Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School filed a civil rights action today on behalf of nine Latino immigrants against the East Haven Police Department, the former police chief, and 19 officers. “The suit, the latest in a series of complaints by Latino residents, says the police in this town have practiced racial profiling and intimidated them with beatings, false arrests and unwarranted raids on legitimate businesses,” reports the N.Y. Times.  “Over the past two decades, the Hispanic population in East Haven has nearly quadrupled to about 1,900, or about 6 percent of the population, according to census estimates. The local police have a long history of tense relations with immigrants and minorities, and the federal Justice Department is investigating whether officers have practiced discriminatory policing.”

KJ