Palo Alto: racial profiling? (East Palo Alto: low income, crime, neighborhood)

[Alexus]

I have never considered Palo Alto a welcoming town for blacks, but it appears like some recent crimes there have sparked the police chief to do some racial profiling. Any black person walking in Palo Alto must make sure they look and dress as non-threatening as humanly possible to minimize being stopped to explain who they are. This is 2008 and this is incredible.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10866708?nclick_check=1

[Full-Blooded American]

Originally Posted by Alexus

Any black person walking in Palo Alto must make sure they look and dress as non-threatening as humanly possible to minimize being stopped to explain who they are.

That's good advice for anybody, regardless of their race.

[Happy Cells]

This whole notion of so called "profiling" in Palo Alto (shallow alto) is B.S....

The Palo Alto Police were looking for a suspect who fit a given description....after a long CRIME WAVE downtown.....and the Chief told her officers to look for people that looked like the suspect. (a black gangstah looking male)
When the man was caught...he DID fit the profile....(no surprise...)

Profiling criminals is good policing! IT WORKS!
All the complaints, all this whining, all this yelling and noise about this case are little more than bored shtanfurd preppy kids and shallow alto yuppie dogs trying to salve their egos about how well THEY live....compared to the "poor workers" they claim to love sooooo much....

...nothing more...

I ALWAYS have to REMIND people just how VEHEMENTLY the 'professorville' Palo Alto elitists fought against the Health Clinic....the Fast Food restaurants the low income housing in the DOWNTOWN Palo Alto area.....Why? Because they have "compassion" for the criminals of East Palo Alto the hoards of poor decrepit welfare cases.....that walk right on in....over the highway....but that compassion is always at a distance...meaning, "we don't want you in OUR neighborhood...." The Burger K--g restaurant will only attract "undesirables" and..."Oh my GOSH! There simply is NO ROOM for low income housing on Alma Street Downtown...there is no room for ummm.....ummm....errr.....PARKING! Yea...that's it....no room for parking.."... B.S.!!!!
The yupp's downtown don't want EPA types hanging around period.....so they project their INHERENT rich white man BIGOTRY on the Palo Alto Police....because the Police are an EASY target to vilify....and the media is totally complicit in this regard....

...nice try LOSERS.....but the whole world knows how truly pathetic you all really are!

Enjoy your multi-million dollar mansion on Bryant Street......CAPITALIST PIG!

[Capt. Dan]

Originally Posted by Alexus

I have never considered Palo Alto a welcoming town for blacks, but it appears like some recent crimes there have sparked the police chief to do some racial profiling. Any black person walking in Palo Alto must make sure they look and dress as non-threatening as humanly possible to minimize being stopped to explain who they are. This is 2008 and this is incredible.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10866708?nclick_check=1

Better yet. Tell your black brothers to get a job and stop robbing people. Then none of this hassle would be needed!

[tangodoodles]

Originally Posted by Capt. Dan

Better yet. Tell your black brothers to get a job and stop robbing people. Then none of this hassle would be needed!

Rude. Again. Why am I not surprised?