What Ferguson, Staten Island cases say about justice
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he plans to bring reform to the Justice Department. The plan will specifically target profiling--a longstanding source of tension between the DOJ and community that has escalated in recent weeks following the grand jury results concerning Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
Sarah Hill, a founder of MN Second Chance Coalition and lobbyist for Capitol Hill Strategies, and Hennepin County Judge Kevin Burke join The Daily Circuit to talk about this reform.
If you're a former or current law enforcement officer, do you think racial profiling is a problem? If you've had experience with the criminal justice system as person of color, did that experience seem fair? Leave your stories in the comments below.
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