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Originally posted by caddmannq
Since I'm white, I'll have to disagree with that one.  Pure B.S.
Around here, on the south and west side of town, the average drug and alcohol offender is about three times as likely to be black or hispanic as white. Yet on the north and east side of town, he's about 5 times as likely to be white. The local cops take this into account when they patrol different areas, and they should! It's part of their job to know this stuff. |
I'll bet in the south and west sides of you town, there are 3 times as many blacks or hispanics than whites, and on the north and east side of town, there five times as many whites as minorities. That is to say, the average offender is more likely to be one race or another in one location because the average person overall is more likely to be that race in those areas.
Ok, let's put it another way. Let's say every person that commits a certain crime is black. That doesn't give you the right to pull over all black people because they are the only people that commit that crime. You must have specific evidence that a certain black person has commited a crime before you can pull them over. Cops operate under the assumtion that you are; IE-Look there's a black person! Black people don't belong in this part of town! He must have done something wrong! Let's pull him over for no specific reason! That is racist.
Oh, and, BTW, I'm white too (not that it matters).