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A Letter I Wrote Janell Ross 24 Hours Ago; Still No Replies

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Posted on September 24, 2008 - 12:44pm at Enclave
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Here's what I wrote Tennessean reporter Janell Ross yesterday about her regrettable story on crime and racial profiling in either Salemtown or Germantown or both:

Ross Article Promoted on White Supremacist Forum, Which is Not Good for North Nashville Neighborhoods

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Posted on September 23, 2008 - 8:15pm at Enclave
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Janell Ross's tenuous article on alleged racial profiling in Germantown and/or Salemtown (deciphering which it is nearly impossible from Ross's opaque reporting) is now linked on a white supremacist website under a title like, Neighborhood in Nashville Calls The Police When They See Blacks Out

Tennessean Article Anecdotal on Race and Crime in Urban Neighborhoods

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Posted on September 22, 2008 - 7:30am at Enclave
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Janell Ross's piece in the Tennessean this morning on police calls and racial profiling is sketchy, provides no statistics or fact-based hypotheses for tensions in transitional neighborhoods, and generally rests on the interviews of a handful people in two very different neighborhoods: Germantown and Salemtown

Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

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Posted on July 28, 2008 - 3:52pm at Nashville21
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Tim Chavez has made a fairly bold request of the Democratic nominee...abandon the 287 (g) immigration program:

Racial Profiling in Order to Get Folks 287(g)ed

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Posted on July 22, 2008 - 8:37am at Tiny Cat Pants
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Oh, John Lamb, I’m so glad that you brought this up.

Pregnant Woman Shackled During Labor for Driving Without License in Nashville

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Posted on July 21, 2008 - 8:02pm at Tennessee Guerilla Women
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Exceptions To The Profile

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Posted on April 22, 2008 - 7:30am at Post Politics
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Rep. Stacey Campfield, always the rabble-rouser, tries to tag on an exception to a racial profiling bill:

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