Italy - 2012
Is there evidence or indication that the police force engages in ethnic profiling?
- Code:
- RED47
- Key Area:
- Policing - Law Enforcement - Justice
- Strand(s):
- Racism, Discrimination
| Short Answer |
Yes. |
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| Qualitative Info |
Little research or data is available on the situation of ethnic profiling in Italy in the period 2009-2010. An exception is the 2010 EU MIDIS report on racism and discrimination.The perceptions of ethnic profiling in Italy is quite high among all three migrant minorities surveyed: 67% of Albanians, 45% of Romanians and 55% North Africans believe that the last time they were stopped by the police; they were stopped due to their ethnic background. The survey also explores casual police stops in the street which are extremely frequent in Italy for migrants. In fact, one of out of three respondents (of migrant origin) has been stopped by the police at least four times in the last 12 months. Only half of the respondents from Albania and Romania and one third North Africans in Italy evaluated the police conduct during stops positively. Migrants from North Africa had the worst experience with the police, 41% believed that the police were disrespectful to them during the checks while only 21% of Romanian and 18% of Albanians claimed that the conduct of the police during checks was fairly to very disrespectful. The percentage of negative evaluations of police treatment during checks by migrants living in Italy is the highest among all migrant communities in all the EU countries included in the study, suggesting that the conduct of the police should be monitored. Source: ENAR SHADOW REPORT 2009/2010 - Racism and Discrimination in Italy by Laura Di Pasquale - http://cms.horus.be/files/99935/MediaArchive/Italy.pdf. EU-Midis, Relazione "dati in breve". Fermi di poliizia e minoranze, FRA, 2010.
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| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities | |
| Type (R/D) | Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia | |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Policing - law enforcement | |
| External Url | http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/attachments/EU-MIDIS-police_IT.pdf | |
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