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Being a young male out late at night often brought about law enforcement scrutiny. The more I started looking like a middle-aged schlub who no longer had the energy or inclination to be involved in mayhem, the less I got bothered.
30 years ago I WAS a young dude and looking back in it, I can understand the cops hassling us because so many of us did real stupid stuff and, I'm "white". It is what it is.
The police force in my city profiles the hell out of the meth heads here. So consequently if you dress and act like a meth head, you might get profiled. Majority of meth heads here are white, probably 99% of them.
Gang bangers can cause a lot of harm; robbery, drugs, assualt, etc. If you dress and act like a gang banger, you might get profiled.
Has nothing to do with color.
To quote Jim Carrey in Liar Liar "Stop breaking the law a-hole!"
Not quite 99 percent a white person thing here in Arizona; meth is a HUGE problem on the Indian Rez's too.
I kind of don't like the argument what about us innocent black people, because it sort of implies that black people who are criminals should be mistreated by the police.
The real problem is this whole idea of collective black racial guilt or collective black racial failings which is tied up in the creation of the racial black identity that we all must suffer until every black person is a fine upstanding citizen whatever that means.
It is called respectability politics.
I didn't say criminals should be treated badly, but they should be treated like criminals. criminals of all races should expect to be treated like criminals.
In his book The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the author tells of his days as a bugler, hitting white neighborhoods. If he noticed a police car following him, he would pull over, get out of the car, flag down the officer, and say he was lost and needed directions to an address in a black neighborhood. Said it worked every time.
I used to do stuff like that when I drove for 4 years without a license. I would stop them and ask for directions. I enjoyed it.
And white people get stopped for driving in a predominately black neighborhood.
Police look for things out of the ordinary.
white people get stopped in black neighborhoods, because of anti black racism. it's the idea that all there is to do for a white person to do in a black neighborhood is buy drugs or maybe pick up prostitutes.
As a white male, I get profiled by police every day. They see I drive a stock late model Toyota sedan, that I dress appropriately with a clean haircut and shave sitting in a normal driving position in my seat, and that I drive during normal hours in areas you'd expect to see a guy like me in. In my profile, I don't get pulled over and hassled at all.
I like my profile, and I don't mind being profiled.
I want to ask because some are under the impression that only minorities are subject to police profiling. What about whites? Have any of you been stopped by the police on false pretenses?
uhm
YES
suspect is a 6' white male wearing a red jacket
guess what you just made a "profile" of the suspect...he is WHITE, and SIX FOOT, wearin specific clothing
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suspect is WHITE, 5'9", with a swastika tattoo on his right forearm, along with a oriental symbol in his left area between the index finger and thumb
guess what you just described a profile of a suspect
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