Aug 3, 2009
Wow! You go on vacation for a few weeks and look what happens. I am so sorry to have missed this lively debate, however I am proud of all of you for covering it well in comments. Your conversation gives me hope that we truly are building a dialogue here at the PC.
I am just starting to research what happened wiht the professor and the Sergeant. I will write on it when I am fully educated. Thank you all for starting the conversation yourselves. Next vacation I’ll have to find WIFI!
Feb 4, 2008
Anyone else read this story about how the NYPD is the latest bad evil police department committing the racial profiling faux pas?
I did a little research on the “Center for Constitutional Law.” I am always suspicious when someone names their organization that way (sounds too much like the “Center for all things good and right”). It’s as if they are begging me to check them out. So I did. Here is what they like to do:
They sued the first Bush administration to stop the liberation of Kuwait.
They sued Clinton for bombing Kosovo.
They directly compare Israel’s foreign policy to Augusto Pinochet’s ethnic cleansing.
And their current nonsensical position is the same tired whining I hear over and again. They imply that police stops should be related to the race of the population at large. Hogwash.
It is not my fault (nor any other cop’s) that racial minorities commit more crimes than whites. Here are the cold facts:
According to the latest federal figures, blacks are 12% of the U.S. population but account for 27% of all sexual-assault convictions, 66% of all robbery convictions and 38% of all fraud and embezzlement convictions. Similar numbers, by the way, for murder.
This is awful and inexcusable, but it is not my fault. See one of my original posts here for all the social systems that failed these young men prior to the police ever meeting them.
Where is the article accusing the welfare system of a culture of dependency? Did I miss the one that criticizes public schools for selling short the African American population with crummy schools, no supplies, and low teaching standards? I searched the Center’s website but could not find even one such suit…
Get pissed at them, Mr. Ratner, not the hard working cops who have to clean up their mess.
Oct 5, 2007
I certainly hope I am wrong, but I think we might be looking at the next “incident” in police work coming to us soon from Florida. See this article and video for the details, but in summary, here is what happened:
A young girl was being arrested for stealing things. That is because stealing is wrong. Then she resisted lawful efforts to handcuff her. That is wrong, too. Then she bit the police officer. Still wrong. Eventually the police officer grew tired of all this malarkey and punched the suspect once, pepper sprayed and arrested her. That is allowed.
The cop did right, the suspect did wrong. So that’s the end of this post, right?
Not so fast.
You see, there is a problem in this video; one that is clear as day, but many of you might have missed it. In this video, the cop is white and the suspect is not. That will make this arrest an “issue.” It shouldn’t, but it will. Note the interview in the news video. She is concerned that the cop did not explain what he was doing, and that he did not read the girl her rights. What? Her rights? Should he have done that before or after the bite? (more…)
