No racial profiling? Of course there's racial profiling. There's always been racial profiling. Speaking for America anyway, I can't speak for other countries.
But, yeah. It's one of my brother's main motivations for becoming a cop. He insists he's not racist that it is in fact some "fine line" between "profiling" and "racial profiling." But, well, to-may-toe, to-mah-toe.
Yeah. It's fucked up. I think he just gets this high off of making other people feel like crap for the minorest charges. It's not limited to any one race. I'm sure there are plenty of good, easy-going, Andy Griffith type cops somewhere, but for the most part I think the ones that make the newspapers are the asshole "bullies with a badge" or the overly paranoid Barney Fife's.
While incidents of racial profiling are widely deplored today, there is little said about the actual root cause of the phenomenon. The standard explanations for racial profiling focus on institutional racism, but that idea runs contrary to the sea change in social attitudes that has taken place over the last four decades.
this seems like a weird statement, particularly the second sentence, though i guess it makes sense in light of this other assertion, that racial profiling is almost exclusively caused by the war on drugs, which is a way more specific issue than the broad "institutional racism"
Both statistical studies and anecdotal evidence support the view that drug crimes are the almost exclusive focus of investigation in racial profiling cases.
Curiousity killed the cat...dragoness22July 6 2010, 11:40:31 UTC
What are the rules about roadside searches? I remember learning in my law class (in highschool in Canada), which was really more of a "how to avoid going to jail" class, that the cops can only search your car if they have reason to suspect something illegal (ie/ they see the neck of a bottle of Jack sticking out from under the passenger seat, you appear intoxicated, etc). Is this accurate? Is it just a Canada thing? Is it an everywhere thing that gets disregarded by a-hole cops?
Re: Curiousity killed the cat...thebigbadbutchJuly 6 2010, 13:15:35 UTC
That's technically the rule in the United States as well but cops will find a reason to threaten and arrest you if you don't let them search the car. Or at least they do with certain people :(
Re: Curiousity killed the cat...kaowolfieJuly 6 2010, 18:14:52 UTC
One thing I learned, in paralegal classes I took, is that it's pretty simple for the cops to invent just cause.
Of course, none of my white professors would ever admit that most of that just cause is invented because the cops are racist, but they were all as douchey as you would expect liberal white lawyers to be.
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But, yeah. It's one of my brother's main motivations for becoming a cop. He insists he's not racist that it is in fact some "fine line" between "profiling" and "racial profiling." But, well, to-may-toe, to-mah-toe.
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this seems like a weird statement, particularly the second sentence, though i guess it makes sense in light of this other assertion, that racial profiling is almost exclusively caused by the war on drugs, which is a way more specific issue than the broad "institutional racism"
Both statistical studies and anecdotal evidence support the view that drug crimes are the almost exclusive focus of investigation in racial profiling cases.
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Of course, none of my white professors would ever admit that most of that just cause is invented because the cops are racist, but they were all as douchey as you would expect liberal white lawyers to be.
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