Recent Streetsblog LA posts about racial profiling

A Case for the Incorporation of Questions of Access Into Planning for Complete Streets

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 19, 2013 | 8 Comments

“David!” I yelled, gesturing at City Planning’s David Somers to come over and listen to what the residents playing cards in their yard were saying about the need for a stoplight at the intersection outside their front gate. Too many people had come crashing through it, they told me. And if it wasn’t their gate, […]

Jay Sneed (at podium) offered closing remarks at the forum at USC while Tommie Bayliss waited to speak to senior officers in person (Sahra Sulaiman/LA Streetsblog)

A Tale of Two Communities, Part II: LAPD Finds it Stirred Up Hornets’ Nest by Profiling USC Students of Color

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

*This is a sister-story to our recent piece on how the new security measures around USC resulted in the increase in profiling of lower-income youth of color around the campus. Read that story here. “We do not believe at this point that there is any indication that this [incident] was race-based,” Capt. II Paul Snell […]

This is what stopping youth or men of color often looks like, regardless of the reason for the stop. Mikey, Jonathan, and George/Jorge were frisked for weapons on Ave. 50 and York Blvd. in Highland Park in 2013 while waiting for friends. Sahra Sulaiman/LA Streetsblog

A Tale of Two Communities: New Security Measures at USC Intensify Profiling of Lower-Income Youth of Color

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 30, 2013 | 33 Comments

“What you got on you?” the 15 year-old girl says the cops pulled up alongside her asked as she walked along Vermont one night. Bundled up in her boyfriend’s jacket to stave off the chilly air, she didn’t realize that they were actually talking to her until she heard one grumble, “Fucking Mexican!” and repeat […]