Justice
New Orleans Adopts a Bias-Free Immigrant Policing Policy
Advocates see the plan, which forbids police officers from racial profiling, as “one of the best in the country.”
Immigrants who live and work in New Orleans haven’t always had the rosiest relationship with their city’s police force. But by the end of February, that strain will undergo a much-awaited change, as the city’s new immigrant-friendly, “bias-free” policing policy finally goes into effect.
Here’s Jolene Elberth, immigration organizer at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, an immigrants’ rights group that has been pushing for this policy, in a press release: