We see that Blogger has finally decided to post a new "Blog of Note" in the Blogs of Note space. We couldn't help but notice that it wasn't, y'know, US. Still, at least there is, once again, hope.
In other news, according to a recent report on "Stop and Frisk" data from the New York Police Department, black people were significantly more likely to be stopped than white people. According to a chart only 10% of the more than 580,000 stops last year were of white people, while 55% were of blacks.
Racial profiling? Police bias? We didn't think so. But then we saw the form that police must fill out after stopping someone--a form that lists acceptable reasons for stopping and frisking:
1. Resemblance to a suspect
2. Furtive behavior
3. Loitering in front of ("casing") a location
4. Use of the word "hizzy"
5. Other
Hizzy?
ReplyDeleteProfiling now resides at the unsconscious level in most people....an autonomic response....for those charged with law enforcement....profiling must exist at the outset for it is indeed an integral component of didactic observation.
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