Poor white trash, especially the inbred cretins in the Appalachians and isolated rural communities in the Mid- West and West are also a high source of crime, and they are both the producers, main distributors and users of Crystal Meth. If you were going to racially profile black people, you should obviously profile ignorant hillbillies and dirt kickers who dropped out of high school since they are also prone to criminality.
Sure.. I don't think anyone should get special rights to not be profiled. If you fit the description the police have every right to question you. If you have done nothing wrong, and you cooperate with them, they will have no choice but to let you go. If not, then your going to get a big payday anyhow when you sue them. Either way it works out.
Agreed, if you are looking for a Turnip, you do not start looking in a Apple orchid... Especially with crime, where time is of the essence. When eating at the Plaza use your manners, when catching a Killer spare the Emily Post and use some common sense, use anything you can. When they ask for a description do they avoid color? Would asking be wrong? Course not..
I remember there were some shootings in the Washington area a few years ago. Two black men were doing it but they kept evading police dragnets because they were looking for a white man.
No. Profiling anyone is wrong. Also counterproductive. Groups like al Qaeda actually actively seek out non-Middle Eastern (especially white) recruits, because they will less likely be profiled. I think because most serial killers are white men, we subconsciously profile. I remember there was a serial killer caught a few years ago, and they describe the crimes, and when they showed his picture, he was black... I was surprised. I was subconsciously expecting it to be a white guy. And yes, I am white myself.
I would bet they are more right than wrong when it comes to crime....Just my opinion.... These people have experience and Millions of cases to go by, if they profile there is a reason for it...They are not about to waste their time, being prejudice is not what they are about, some are for sure, but I doubt most. What they want is the bust, the correct one.
Granny says it might be a good idea... ... if ya lookin' fer an embezzler... ... or one o' dem Wall Street bankers... ... same difference.
Maybe. I know when I pick up the paper, and I read about a crime, I can usually guess the race of the perpetrator, and I'm usually right. However, if we're talking about profiling white men before the fact, that is not right. As I mentioned in the example of al Qaeda, they look for non-Middle Eastern (especially white) recruits that they can use to commit acts of terrorism because they are less likely to be profiled, so less likely to get caught with the bomb before they detonate it. This is a concrete example where racial profiling is counterproductive. It's the same with drug related crimes in my city. There is one major gang that is predominantly black, and blacks are profiled, so they get non-black people to do their dirty work. Many criminals use the polices' tendency to racially profile in their favour. I know white criminals who use their whiteness in their favour, too. If we profile white men as serial killers, who's to say a white serial killer won't seek out a non-white accomplice?
White people get racially profiled all the time. A police officer is driving through a predominately black neighborhood and sees a white guy in a car pulling away from a corner full of black youths at 2 am, nine times out of then that guy is going to get pulled over as it makes little sense for a white man to be in a predominately black neighborhood hanging out with the local gang culture at 2 am.
profiling goes on all of the time in your everyday life a good restaurant mgr knows to brew coffee when a tour bus of senior citizens pulls up. experience tells them that. When a fast food restaurant sees a large group of hefty people walk in they know they need to drop more fries into the fryolator. So, it only makes sense that profiling allows better service, it also would aid in security
If a bomb goes off in a populated area with no government or military near I will look at Arabs, then white, then Latino then black. If a bomb goes off in a populated area with government or military near I will look at white, then Arab, then Latino then black. If a bomb goes off in a small area with a high drug incidence near I will look at Latino then black. If a shooting is directed at one place with no government or military near I will look at black only. Lets face it when you (*)(*)(*)(*) off a black man he generally will direct his anger at what he is pissed at. A white man will just kill everyone and sometimes eat them while he has sex with the dead bodies. Yeah profile all of us as needed. It works.
Well I was saying that profiling works. Yeah there are those who may not fit a profile but that does not negate my post.
Well serial killers and mass murderers are generally white. So would you not lean more toward the white in this case? Drive bys are usually more a Latino and black crime (These day not in the 20-30s) so would you not start looking there depending on the demographic of the neighborhood? I guess you know black Americans who eat the people they kill and re-fridge the leftovers?
Good point there and very good rationale. Never know when people will start rubbing off on each other. Still I do not think it is bad.
Well, you make a good argument, I cant fault you on that. My bet is they find it beneficial in the long run, In other words they grab a faster net..net. This is the benefit of going with the odds. Remember, they do not rule out everybody else, it's just their first preference...and when you are dealing with time then you must go with the best bet.... In no way should it be ruled out as an effective tool....That's what I think...
Your right! Profiling is one of the best ways our CIA, FBI, and other elite branches of peace keepers find evil doers!
