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Originally Posted by prrriiide
So you're telling me (and I'm actually supposed to believe) that if it were hypothesized (NOT proven, mind you) that whites were more likely to fit the profile of a particular crime, then you would be perfectly happy in the knowledge that you were 3-5 times more likely to be stopped, detained, searched, and questioned by authorities (with probable cause or not) on the basis of your skin color alone?
I know your posts better than that, Cal. You would scream bloody murder.
Which is EXACTLY what the NYPD stop-and-frisk program was all about.
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I disagree with the mandatory frisking then, I must have missed that part. But still, I am not against profiling, as I believe it to be efficient policing. I am however against police state tactics, where guilt is assumed. I would say the NYPD is guilty of police state tactics, and not racism for that ill thought plan. Innocence should always be presumed, but if probable cause exists, it is far more efficient to search people who fit the profile of the crime you're looking for, than to consider all people equally and waste police time searching 85 year old women for drugs. Profiling is key to finding murderers, etc.
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Even when those demographic profiles are based upon erroneous assumptions?
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Obviously not, I'm no cop, I really don't know who to look for nearly as well as they do, but I would trust their judgment in profiling, assuming they use fair methods and only harass citizens who they have probable cause to harass.
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Au contrere, mon frere! The study I linked:
1991-1993 falls directly on point of the time frame referenced in the Sentencing study. Whites represented over 50% of the users, but 0% of the prosecutions.
Your statement is a racial stereotype based on an erroneous assumption that is not borne out by the statistics. How fair is it to base profiles on the same type of assumptions?
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I was not aware that the stereotype was false. In my experience every, white cocaine user I've ever met has used powder, which led to my belief on the matter.
Like I said in the last post though, there really could be many reasons why it seems whites get away with it more. From the surveys being flawed and whites not honestly answering about their drug usage (I know when i was in high school they gave us a survey, and most of us wrote that we were drug addicts because we hated surveys), having better lawyers to plea down the charges, to being better at concealing usage. Those statistics don't prove racism. Even if it did show unfair prosecution (which it doesn't necessarily show), it would still be legal prosecution, but too much leniency to white drug users.