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Moose fights racial profiling
Charles A. Moose, a high-profile former police chief visited Miami trying to help revive federal legislation banning racial profiling. Moose urged citizens to contact their local members of Congress and enlist their support for the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004. The act defines racial profiling, makes it illegal and would require detailed data collection. Moose said a movement to impose a national ban on racial profiling fizzled after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that cast suspicion over Arab Americans and other followers of Islam. ''I've been stopped. I've had my time taken. Gotten some tickets,'' Moose said. ``But I don't know anybody who's been picked up and shipped off to Guantánamo Bay. So clearly things have gotten worse, and most of us have just sat idly by.'' [more] and [more]