Among other provisions. these laws would ban racial profiling by State and local law enforcement. establish mandatory data collection and reporting. and address the issues of police accountability and building trust between police departments and communities by providing incentives for local police organizations to voluntarily adopt performance -based standards to reduce misconduct. In the OSCE. where discriminatory policing issues have been documented from the United Kingdom and France to Russia. I have urged the chairinoffice to hold a highlevel meeting on racism and xenophobia focused on concrete action. Following the most recent tragedies in Paris and San Bernardino. there has been a backlash of hatred directed against the asylum seekers. immigrants. and Muslims in many OSCE countries. often fueled by populist or extremist parties. such as Le Pen in France. UKIP in Great Britain. the True Finns in Finland. Swedish Democrats. Austrian Freedom Party. or Golden Dawn in Greece. Worse still. this kind of xenophobia bleeds into the discourse of mainstream parties. As such. I will add an increased focus on prejudice and discrimination linked with the migration and refugee crisis to my priorities. In addition to focusing on antiSemitism and discriminatory policing and the antiMuslim backlash. I will also look at the protection of migrants and refugees. as that is becoming an area of discrimination that is troubling in the OSCE regionincluding in our own country of the United States. I am particularly troubled by the spike in violence in our own country directed at houses of worship and community centersfueled by escalating antiMuslim discourse. In Palm Beach.
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