Human Rights

(Washington, DC) – Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today released a report demonstrating that racial profiling practices by law enforcement have expanded in the government's war on terror and have affected an estimated one of nine Americans. The 50-page report, Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, Domestic Security, and Human Rights in the United States, asserts that law enforcement's use of race, religion, country of origin, or ethnic and religious appearance as a proxy for criminal suspicion undermines national security. Racial profiling is so pervasive that there are an estimated 32 million victims in the United States—approximately the population of Canada—and occurs while individuals are walking, driving, shopping, flying, sitting at home, or worshipping. AIUSA's analysis of statistical data also found that an estimated 87 million Americans are at risk of being subjected to racial profiling.