A new book about how modern racial profiling began to be released Friday, September 17
New York, NY (PRWEB) September 15, 2010
Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed is the true story of the American scandal known as racial profiling, as he began a long battle so that light. Black Dragon, published by Jigsaw Press, is registered in the award-winning investigative reporter Joseph Collum, the Oxford English Dictionary credits with coining the term racial profiling.
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original television news expose? emerged as the new Jersey State Police in their efforts to fight the war against drugs raid set up in the New Jersey Turnpike, aka Black Dragon, which targeted motorists tens of thousands of black and minority. Like most traveled highways of America in the last decades of the twentieth century it became a road leading nations symbol of racism.
Black Dragon Author details:
? How modern racial profiling developed by New Jersey State troops.
? As an internal war raging between black and white soldiers in NJ profiling.
? As police soldiers have learned the technique in the United States.
? As a leading law enforcement officials NJ profiling covering more than ten years.
? As the coverage led to a bloody shooting of four minority students.
? As profiling finally exposed in the press, civil rights advocates and political leaders.
? Book, 2001 NJ Senate hearings into the profile under the leadership of Michael Chertoff led to calls for removal of Supreme Court justice. Tags: Black Dragon is an epic saga of heroes and indeed full of criminals and all the excitement of the race before the race in America, says Collum. Given the heat surrounding the debate on immigration and terrorism today, it is important to understand how racial profiling came to life and its influence on our national character.
Tags: Black Dragon revolves around a potpourri of interesting personalities, including:
Black radicals? Within a few small, young black men who joined what they regarded as the best law enforcement in America, just to get into a civil war against their organization.
? Drug Avenger: Col. Clinton Pagano, feared police commander known as J. Edgar Hoover State of New Jersey, who presented his soldiers to become drug gladiators, but with far fewer civil liberties.
? Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. and his dream team: strength helped New Jersey to adopt racial profiling, and in this process, the state collected $ 13 million.
? Michael Chertoff: former federal prosecutor and head of the next meeting of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who led the investigation that exposed racial profiling finally cover.
? Christine Todd Whitman, Governor of NJ, who finally admitted that racial profiling was real, not imagined.
? Peter Vernier, new, politically connected Attorney General and NJ Supreme Court, whose coverage of racial profiling has been exposed to a place of dramatic climatic Black Dragons buzz already tags Black Dragon is at:.
Tags: “Collum provides an excellent story and a serious warning, said Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, the more moving in the post-Obama world where people tend to their ignorance.”
Tags: Joseph Collum has made a major contribution to safeguarding and promoting civil rights, said Frank suspenders, Professor of Law and Director of Constitutional litigation clinic at Rutgers Law School. Black Dragon is encyclopedic account, passionate and much-needed 40-year war to end racial profiling.
Tags: Black Dragon will be available September 17, 2010 Constitution Day in barnesandnobel.com and Amazon.com. A book to be published in hardcover, will sell for $ 26.99.
If you want more information, obtain a copy of the book Black Dragon interview with Joseph Collum or other key figures in the book, contact Stephanie Christopulos in Stephanie.christopulos @ gmail.com or call 917 – 656-5166. Visit http://www.josephcollum.com
Tags: Joseph Collum is the recipient of more than 100 major journalism awards during his career as an investigative reporter, including the DuPont-Columbia Award, two George Polk Awards and five investigative reporters and editors award. He was the first journalist in America to expose racial profiling widespread practice (Oxford English Dictionary credits him coining the term “racial profiling”). His last duty was at Ground Zero on the 11th September 2001 and the days immediately after the collapse of World Trade towers. His description of the tragedy is an excerpt of the book, which includes catastrophe. Brady Run Collum’s novel was published in 2009 and is currently available on Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
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