Gender Profiling, OK? Racial Profiling, Not?

[Dinner]

Spiffor is right. If you are part of the white power structure (I.E. White) then you get more lee-way. Can this ever be changed? I doubt it as long as the majority of the people are white. Therefor what use is there decrying it?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I call BS.

Really? You do? That's been documented more than once. (ugh... damnit... I hate doing research. I'll be back...).

[Al B. Sure!]

i think what this comes down to is... would you want the police hounding you everytime you go out your house, Spink, just because of the colour of your skin?

**** police efficiency and all that... would you want that?

[Spiffor]

Albert

[Dinner]

No one should be hounded every time they leave there house but there must be a point in the middle some where.

[Al B. Sure!]

Oerdin:

The middle is found where the police get little bulletins over the radio saying, "White male in his twenties or thirties wearing a grey t-shirt and driving a black Honda Accord..."

its called suspects and the police stop anyone who fulfills a reasonable amount of the description... they don't stop every white male or every white male in his 20's or 30's but if one is wearing a grey t-shirt or is driving a black Honda... there we go...

[MrFun]

Damn it -- Boddington's is getting way too close in exposing this vast liberal conspiracy of persecuting, and discriminating against white, heterosexual men.

[Az]

I don't know what you people mean by profiling, but when describing the pupetrator of a crime, let's say burglary, I think describing skin colour is just as logical as describing sex, eye colour, hair colour, height, build, etc.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Azazel
I don't know what you people mean by profiling, but when describing the pupetrator of a crime, let's say burglary, I think describing skin colour is just as logical as describing sex, eye colour, hair colour, height, build, etc.

I think "profiling" in this troll means for the police to consider blacks as more prone to crime, and to orient more efforts towards blacks, to apprehend more blacks when looking for undescribed suspects etc.

[Al B. Sure!]

Az:

yeah thats not profiling... thats having a suspect and police looking for anyone of the relatively specific description of the suspect (ie- specific as in its not something as general as JUST the colour of their skin).

what spink is proposing is having police stop every single black person they ever encounter because black people have a slight higher percentage chance of committing crimes than white people

[Az]

Spiff&Albert:

Well that's awfully vague, isn't it?

I mean, I can see why, and even condone special task forces of the police to deal with certain communities, that can cause more trouble ( and I buy myself immunity from flames, because I am myself a member (sort of) of a community which is blamed for a nice slice of organized crime, petty, and not so ) but checking out people on the street randomly because they're black white green or whatever is stupid.

[Al B. Sure!]

another thing is that its horribly illegal... police stopping people when there's no reasonable suspicion, no suspect... hell there's not even a single crime that the police officer has in mind when he stops the individual... thats just plain illegal in any free country.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
another thing is that its horribly illegal... police stopping people when there's no reasonable suspicion, no suspect... hell there's not even a single crime that the police officer has in mind when he stops the individual... thats just plain illegal in any free country.

We have tons of this in France. The police can ask his ID to anyone at any moment. Needless to say, as a white, I have never been controlled by the French police. My brother was controlled only once, and that was when he came back very tan from vacation

It seems similar in Germany. Monday, when I was crossing the German border in the train, a few cops climbed in to check the IDs (it is not mandatory to do so when crossing a EU border, but it is legal when it happens). They have left the whole car alone, except for the only dark-skinned, seemingly Indian, couple.

This kind of things achieves nothing but to anger the hell out of their victims, if such treatment happens often enough

[Az]

Why the hell is that illegal?

[Al B. Sure!]

Spiffor, notice that i said free country... we all know France is not included