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If you think privatizing will change this you are sadly mistaken, look at the privatized prisons. blacks are far more likely to be railroaded into the system.
We have created an ugly reality post slavery that resembles too closely the master slave relationship. there is merit to the OP's point, but the solution isn't to be found where they think. This is truly a sad affair.
Really? Seriously? It seems that MOST Black people busted ARE hood rats; PWT anglo whites like meth heads get picked up and tossed in the slammer too. It is what it is: don the crime, do the time.
Really? Seriously? It seems that MOST Black people busted ARE hood rats; PWT anglo whites like meth heads get picked up and tossed in the slammer too. It is what it is: don the crime, do the time.
What do you call the DEA then? Thugs?? They were just recently (again) found to be aiding in drug transportation.
Looks like when it comes to drug offenses, only one side is getting locked up.
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Reason: getting personal
“Every year, thousands of people are stopped while driving, flying, or even walking simply because of their actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration or citizenship status, or religion,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, said in testimony for a 2012 Senate hearing on racial profiling.
The Bush administration issued guidelines barring federal agents from using race or ethnicity in their investigations across federal law enforcement agencies. Those guidelines provided leeway to agents involved in national security operations, allowing them to use the race or ethnicity in investigations designed to identify potential terrorist threats.
"What happened many miles away in Sanford should be uncomfortable for you," Fulton told the crowd, according to Deseret News.
Fulton said that she's working to make Florida a better place and questioned Zimmerman's judgment of her son the night of Feb. 26, 2012.
"But is it the hoodie that really made the difference? Or the color of his skin?" Fulton asked. "And if by one second, just by one mere second, we think that it's the color of his skin, then something is wrong with America."
Fulton also went on to say that racial profiling happens everywhere, according to UPI.com.
"Don’t think for one second racial profiling doesn’t happen. Don’t think for one minute even in your community of Salt Lake City it doesn’t happen," she told the crowd. "Racism is still alive. Racial profiling is still alive. Injustice is still alive."
I'm a minority and have never been hunted by police.
It's probably because statistically, people of my ethnicity don't commit over 50% of the nation's crimes, have out-of-wedlock children at at a 70% rate, etc.
I'm a minority and have never been hunted by police.
It's probably because statistically, people of my ethnicity don't commit over 50% of the nation's crimes, have out-of-wedlock children at at a 70% rate, etc.
......And are comfortably blinded by stats that are partly true. Due to your own smugness, it never occurred to you that this is true only in certain areas but not all? Unless you are from a place where there are very few people that share your ethnicity and I'm willing to bet that there is a high crime area where your particuliar group is overly represented in crime.
Nineteen-year-old college student McDade was shot and killed in March 2012 when officers responded to a report of an armed robbery of a man in Pasadena, Calif. He was later found to be unarmed, with only a cellphone in his pocket. His death has prompted his family to file a lawsuit, in which McDade's parents argue that he was left on the street for a prolonged period of time without receiving first aid. According to court documents, McDade's last words were, "Why did they shoot me?" The officers involved were initially placed on paid administrative leave but have since returned to duty.
"They just came in and shot him," Alcia Herron, Roberson's fiance, told First Coast News. "He didn't say nothing, the police didn't say nothing, anything, it was like a silent movie. You couldn't hear anything, all you could hear were the gun shots go off and I seen them going into his body and he just fell down."
Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said Monday that authorities responded to a suicide threat and that Roberson approached them “aggressively armed with two items used as weapons," according to the Florida Times-Union.
The chief refused to specify what those weapons were, according to the Associated Press.
Roberson's mother insisted that her son was unarmed and that there were "no weapons in this house whatsoever."
"I saw my son shot down," she told the newspaper. “It was ‘Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom."
The officers involved were placed on administrative leave as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation reviews the case.
Here's some positive things that 2 Police chiefs are doing to stop racial profiling and to improve Police/community relations. There are still "good cops" out there. Those who respect the rights of others and understand their role in society.
Hill said the data on racial profiling is hard to quantify. While statistics show more minorities are sent to prison than whites, there are too many different circumstances for a true comparison.
But Utah police chiefs said profiling has no place in good police work, and they want to better train their officers.
"Try to understand or view the situation through the eyes of the individual you're contacting, how do they perceive it? You may intend one thing, but they may perceive it (another way)," Russo said.
The chiefs also want to better how officers talk to the community.
"Just slow it down, explain our actions and then look people in the eye, talk to them and have a conversation — we have time for that," King said.
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