Tara Lai Quinlan
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Tara Lai Quinlan is a New York City attorney, and has worked with the Partnering for Prevention and Community Safety Initiative (PfP) at Northeastern University School of Law since 2001 on racial profiling and community policing issues. Ms. Quinlan is the Director of Research for PfP, and serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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Posthumous Profiling? Puzzling Pieces Abound in the Trayvon Martin Case

8 Comments | Posted March 29, 2012 | 11:21 AM

There seems to be no end to the proliferation of puzzling information in the wake of the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin. While the evidence suggests that George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon Martin before killing him, many now wonder whether the Sanford Police posthumously profiled Trayvon as well by failing...

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Partnerships, Not Islamophobia, Must Dictate US Counterterrorism Policy

0 Comments | Posted March 11, 2011 | 3:25 PM

Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) did his best to demonstrate that McCarthyism is not dead by making Islamophobia the new version of 1950's Communism. Further, his assertions that American Muslims have not helped law enforcement are just plain wrong.

University of North Carolina Prof. Charles Kurzman's new

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Muslim-Police Community Partnerships Will Thwart Homegrown Terrorism

0 Comments | Posted November 1, 2010 | 1:02 PM

In April 2008, Isa Ibrahim spoke with members of his mosque in Bristol, England, about his plans to die in a suicide bombing. He showed mosque members injuries on his hands, including marks from shards of glass, which he said were caused when a bottle blew up while he...

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