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Monday, April 13, 2009
News Shocking: Police harrass Latinos, Latinos don't trust police
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Let's review:
Police are given the right to stop Latinos for minor traffic violations, hold them and hand them over to immigration officials. Undocumented immigrants are told they aren't allowed to attend community colleges, like CPCC, and they are responsible for out-of-state tuition at state schools, like UNC Charlotte, no matter how long they've lived in America — even though the schools would benefit from their attending. Latinos may, or may not, be counted in the upcoming census. Among many other unsavory things ...
Meanwhile, officials wonder why crimes in the Latino community go unreported, why community members aren't super interested in being friends with the police. Really?
Crimes are going unsolved in Charlotte because immigrants again don't feel safe reporting them, police say.Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief Rodney Monroe, as part of his 2009 strategic plan, has launched a campaign to repair what he calls the “damaged” relationship between the two groups.
The relationship began to crumble in 2006 due to increased immigration enforcement.
At that time, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement created a Charlotte-based operation team to hunt down fugitive illegal immigrants. Then-Mecklenburg Sheriff Jim Pendergraph also joined another federal program, known as 287(g), that allows local law enforcement to act as immigration agents.
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.
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