Racial Profiling is a relatively new class of litigation, but because of recent media exposure and comments made by candidates during presidential debates, the volume of new racial profiling cases is expected to increase.

While Mr. Schmedlen has only functioned as a litigation consultant and opinion expert for the defense on two racial profiling cases--and for the plaintiffs on one--much was learned during the 150+ hours spent on one matter and his experience may well qualify him as one of the few people in the U.S. with any real expertise in this area.

Allegations of this type often relate to surveillance and plaintiffs may erroneously rely solely on videotape evidence as proof of the alleged racial profiling. Particularly in environments where there are banks of monitors in addition to recording units, videotape evidence alone proves little or nothing in this regard.

Although little has been written on this subject, an article by Mr. Schmedlen concerning the defense of racial profiling litigation was published in the May, 2000 edition of Security Management magazine. To view the article on the Mediaeater Web site click here on "Racial Profiling Article"

Please scroll down to view security expert witness case titles involving racial profiling.

* Includes one case involving claims of profiling of a protected class other than African-American

SECURITY EXPERT WITNESS LITIGATION CASE HISTORY
RACIAL PROFILING

Marcus Smith by his Next Friend Remell Smith v
J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
Racial profiling security expert witness for defendant
Oakland County, Michigan

John Garrett v
Tandy Corporation
Racial profiling security expert witness for defendant
United States District Court for the District of Maine

Cedric Causey, et al v
Union Planters Bank, et al
Racial profiling security expert witness for plaintiffs
Shelby County, Tennessee

Sergi Zader v
Home Depot USA, Inc. et al
Ethnic profiling security expert witness for defendant
Oakland County, Michigan

Additionally, Mr. Schmedlen served as an expert in one other case where there was an indication of racial profiling. However, after reviewing all the facts, Mr. Schmedlen rejected this premise and focused exclusively on the security guard/retail loss prevention negligence aspects of the case. This case was:

Fatten Tokko & Araf Sareini v
Crowley Milner & Company
Security expert witness for plaintiffs
Wayne County, Michigan

An attachment to Mr. Schmedlen's curriculum vitae identifies the clients in each of these matters and contains a recap of each of the cases.

Questions on this subject? Write Roger H. Schmedlen, CPP, CFE, CII, MIPI

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