In practice, police leverage an arrestee's inability to notify relatives or lawyers about their whereabouts – a perilous position, from a civil rights perspective – to generate information about guns or drugs on Chicago's streets.
"He was a disaster from a civil liberties perspective but also from a national security perspective".
"From a civil rights perspective, you can't demonstrate that a policy or practice burdens one racial group more than another if you have no racial data.
After the Associated Press disclosed the N.Y.P.D.'s Muslim surveillance program, the Times board editorialized against it from a civil liberties perspective.
And Audrey Silk, the founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, a nine-year-old advocacy group, said the trend was troubling from a civil liberties perspective.
People from MI5 were complaining that they were going too far from a civil liberties perspective … We all had reservations about it, because we all thought: 'If this was used against us, we wouldn't stand a chance'".
Ms. Leed said that while the Defense Department and related intelligence agencies were the only organizations that had the ability to protect against such cyberattacks, "they are not the best suited, from a civil liberties perspective, to take on that responsibility".
"A lot of the African-American story has been told from a civil rights perspective as opposed to a business rationale for why you should market to this segment," said Cynthia Perkins-Roberts, the vice president for multicultural marketing at the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, a trade organization.
"This is the paradox of progressive national security law, which is how do you at once advocate for the ability of the civilian courts without accepting that some of that includes compromises that are problematic from a civil liberties perspective?" he said.
Presenter Chris Rock's opening monologue set the tone, with its allusions to the "White People's Choice awards" and some light-hearted civil rights perspective – "when your grandmother's swinging from a tree, it's really hard to care about best foreign documentary short".
