Racial Profiling or Wrong Identity

[Apollo8138]

Did you don your white sheets when typing this or were they being laundered at the time? Your racial stereotypes are ridiculous and serve as a focal point to your lack of intelligence. Do us a favor and spread your garbage elsewhere.

Ditto. Seek life elsewhere please.

[Stan Switek]

Racial profling and racism are two totally different things. Pretending that there are not generalizations that can be made along racial, cultural or religious lines is to ignore facts. Ignoring them does not make them cease to exist. In most lines of work, I would think that there is no place for these generalizations, but in police work, I pray cops do not ignore these facts. I would hate to think that cops are actually required to or expected to ignore these things.

Hear me out... I'm not saying racist stereotypes should be the rule of the day, but there are some rather obvious generalizations that can and should be made. Being that I'm white, I'll stick with the Nascar analogy from my previous post. Anyone who has ever been to a Nascar event knows that a non-white face would be memorable. Assuming a crime did occur - God forbid - like a murder, it'd be foolish to assume the culprit was anything BUT a white guy. Now, that's not to say that all whites are Nascar fans (I'm not,) and not to say that all Nascar fans are white, but the fact remains that it is by an overwhelming margin a white past-time.

So, as the cops go around looking for the culprit, wouldn't it be silly to stop blacks, latinos & asians?

And, before anyone else decides I'm a racist, unintelligent or a Klansman, the man who married my wife & I is black... the last person to have dinner in my house as a guest was a black guy...

Can there not even be an open debate regarding racial profiling? Many in the FBI seem to think it's necessary and protested loudly when it was forbidden.

I'm going to give you todays real big tip on police work. When we are looking for someone, we use a technique called a DESCRIPTION. Race is just one of NUMEROUS factors on which you base probable cause for a detention. This till now secret technique allows you to go far beyond race and allows you to take in things like height, weight, hair & eye color, hairy lengths & style, facial hair, tatoos, scars, clothing worn. That way you dont waste your time stopping every person of a certain race & wast your time while the real crook is escaping. Frankly I'm tired of uninformed people like you throwing out terms like racial profiling when they don't have a clue as to what they are talkig about.

[roopull]

Stan, I understand what racial profiling is vs. description. If you don't have a description to go on... well, it would seem many in the law enforcement world strongly believe in racial profiling. This hasn't been in the news much lately, but if you'd like I would be more than happy to share with you some examples of where my understanding of racial profiling comes from. I tried to simplify the description of racial profiling when someone asked what it was (I admit my explanations are over simplifying things, but I'm not sure how tolerant this forum is of gigantic posts.) If you disagree with my definition, please, clarify... correct me.

Instead of suggesting that I do not know what I'm talking about, I'd be grateful for you to explain it to me as you understand it. I am more than willing to listen.

Thanks,
Brian

[roopull]

Any you know "many in the law enforcement world"?

I know from your other posts that you like to believe that we're all racist, power-hungry and dumber than you but I can assure you that you're wrong on all three counts. How about you stick to making statements about things that you actually know about and if you don't know something, try asking an honest question.

None of that is true, DC Law. Nothing I have said regarding LEOs implies racism, power-hunger, nor lack of intelligence.

I request you edit the comment appropriately.

[Bearcat06]

And, from my point of view, racial profiling or any kind of profiling is just a-friggin'-okay with me! I mean, if you know someone was killed at a NASCAR event, leave the latinos alone! If someone was killed at a Damon Wayan's movie, leave the whities alone! Sheesh! The more PC the world gets, the lower the collective IQ!

Those comments aren't racial in nature...????? :rolleyes:

[roopull]

To make a racial comment & make a racist comment are not the same thing.

Racism implies a superiority of one race over another.

Either way, it does not apply to the attack... I never called any LEO a racist.

[Bearcat06]

I never called any LEO a racist.

Your postings have implied it.....

Do you have a purpose on being here....other than acting like a no it all jackass...? :rolleyes:

[Stan Switek]

Stan, I understand what racial profiling is vs. description. If you don't have a description to go on... well, it would seem many in the law enforcement world strongly believe in racial profiling. This hasn't been in the news much lately, but if you'd like I would be more than happy to share with you some examples of where my understanding of racial profiling comes from. I tried to simplify the description of racial profiling when someone asked what it was (I admit my explanations are over simplifying things, but I'm not sure how tolerant this forum is of gigantic posts.) If you disagree with my definition, please, clarify... correct me.

Instead of suggesting that I do not know what I'm talking about, I'd be grateful for you to explain it to me as you understand it. I am more than willing to listen.

Thanks,
Brian

If you dont have a description to go on, you dont just go stopping everyone of a certain race. It's wrong. It's pointless. It's not done any place I know of. Rather than spouting off like you know it all, you may just want to read quite a bit more. The more you comment on law enforcement, the more it show just how little you know.

[roopull]

I was commenting on racial profiling. I'm sorry if you feel I'm a know it all... after all, I have asked you describe racial profiling from your point of view. My understanding of it is not just stopping everyone of a certain race. In fact, if you're talking about regular patrol officers, I do not know how racial profiling could be used. When I have heard it defended, it was from an investigatory standpoint.

Considering that the assault on racial profiling was spearheaded by the ACLU, I find the ACLU & videocamera thread ironic.

[Welpe]

I have a Spanish last name too, Welpe... We must be partners in crime... :rolleyes: There are plenty of Hispanics that go to the Homestead races when they come down here... so you want to try that one again?

Sweet, want to hit a NASCAR race and knock off a bunch of whities? They'll never know it was us. :cool:

[Apollo8138]

Sweet, want to hit a NASCAR race and knock off a bunch of whities? They'll never know it was us. :cool:

Absolutely. Hit me up anytime.