Kent Willis
Kent Willis
ahead anecdotal bill committee exist gone gotten information profiling racial states terribly
It's terribly disappointing that we are still at this stage. Most other states have gone ahead and done these studies. And there is significant anecdotal information that racial profiling does exist - and we still have not gotten a bill out of committee in Virginia.
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Jails may make an argument that canteen funds should be treated separately from government funds. We would argue that they aren't. Once they enter the canteen it's the government's money and needs to be treated like any other money that belongs to the government.
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Creationism is not biology and has no place in a biology class. What makes it wrong is not the theory of creationism, but the teaching of creationism as part of a science class.
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If you look carefully at the way that they gathered data for that report, it was simply a matter of interviewing police officers and asking them if they profiled based on race. Not surprisingly, they said no.
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I just decided I'd give it a shot. I figured if I didn't find anything, I'd quit, but I kept finding stuff, then I kind of hit a dead end; that's when I sent my memo to the sheriff.
cause chosen indirect likely route
They have chosen a more indirect route likely to cause complications for a gay-student alliance.
case clearly older parents
This is a case where clearly the parents, or at least an older relative, (are) involved.
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This is not an enormously expensive process. But there is a great deal of anecdotal information that racial profiling does exist in Virginia. If the report indicates that it doesn't, then that's terrific, and it clears the air. If the report shows that racial profiling does exist, then it gives you the basis for designing a program to eliminate it.
banned bill case explicitly harder state
If this bill banned gay-straight alliances outright, it would be unconstitutional. But because it doesn't explicitly state that, it would be harder to make a constitutional case against.
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The only way to do this properly is to have the state pass a law, and then have an independent agency or organization of some kind take the data collected by police at traffic stops and analyze it.
attack growing latino outright
What it amounts to is an outright attack on Manassas' growing Latino population.