Constitution Day 2023: Racial Profiling

U.S. Supreme Court Cases

• Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
• Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948)
• Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968)
• Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974)
• Mich. v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032 (1983)
• Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial Dist. Court, 542 U.S. 177 (2004)
• Heien v. North Carolina, 574 U.S. 54 (2014)

State Cases

• State v. Ross, 335 N.J. Super. 536 (2000)
• Commonwealth v. Lora, 451 Mass. 425 (2008)
• Floyd v. City of New York, 959 F. Supp. 2d 540 (2013)
• Commonwealth v. Long, 485 Mass. 711 (2020)

Racial Profiling, General

• Columbia Student Physically Restrained by Security in Barnard Library (Library Journal)
• For Survivors of Japanese Internment Camps, Court’s Korematsu Ruling Is ‘Bittersweet’ (NYT)
• Years Before Black Lives Matter, 41 Shots Killed Him (NYT)
• DNA in Central Park Jogger Case Spurs Call for New Review (NYT)
• Settlement Is Approved in Central Park Jogger Case, but New York Deflects Blame (NYT)
• City Releases Trove of Documents in Central Park Jogger Case (NYT) 
• Central Park birder Christian Cooper on being 'a Black man in the natural world' (NPR)
• The White Dog Walker and #LivingWhileBlack in New York City (NYT)

Stop-and-Frisk

• Stop and frisk in NYC a decade after historic court ruling (Gothamist)
• N.Y.P.D. Anti-Crime Units Still Stopping People Illegally, Report Shows (NYT)
• New Bedford police stopped, frisked, or questioned Black people at significantly higher rates than white people, report says (Boston Globe)
• SJC confronts systemic racism in interactions between police and people of color (Boston Globe)
• ‘They were treated like animals’: The murder and hoax that made Boston’s black community a target 30 years ago (Washington Post)
• 30 years after Stuart case, Boston still healing: DA's office was complicit in wrongs that were done (Commonwealth Magazine)

Redlining

• The Era of Shutting Others Out of New York’s Suburbs Is Ending (NYT)
• Black homeowner saw her appraisal double when she hid her race. (Indianapolis Star)
• Racial Residential Segregation in Greater Boston
• How Has Boston Gotten Away with Being Segregated for So Long? (Boston Magazine)