Testimony Regarding The Potential For Profiling in Connecticut'S Towns

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TESTIMONY REGARDING THE POTENTIAL FOR PROFILING IN CONNECTICUTS TOWNS

Presented to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights


December 6th, 2011 in Hartford, CT Orlando J. Rodriguez, M.A. Connecticut Voices for Children

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The Non-European Residents Index (NERI)


A demographic measure based on five underlying variables:
% Naturalized

% Non-European Foreign Born


% Hispanic % African American (non-Hispanic) % Asian (non-Hispanic)

Does not include data on:


Police arrests or detentions Profiling

What does it identify:


Changes in non-European population

Towns that have the potential for profiling


It is one possible indicator among many possible indicators

What does it not identify:


Does not predict where profiling occurs

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Non-European Residents in 2009/2010

New Haven West Haven Bridgeport Stratford

New London

Hartford

Note: Based on the Non-European Residents Index

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Increase in Non-European Residents 2000 to 2009/2010


Pomfret

Groton

East Haven New Haven West Haven Bridgeport Stratford

New London
Westbrook

Hartford

Note: Based on the Non-European Residents Index

12/6/2011

Percent Increase in Non-European Residents 2000 to 2009/2010


Granby Union Pomfret

Middlefield

East Haven Stratford

Westbrook

Hartford

Note: Based on the Non-European Residents Index

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