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Originally posted by Spanky
Racial profiling is not a knee Jerk reaction. The Knee Jerk reaction is to not use racial profiling. Racial profiling is part of a whole set of profiling criteria. Of course you check people who look nervous etc. But racial profiling is just one profile used among many. Is it reasonable to check males of Middle Eastern Descent? What is unreasonable is to not check males of Middle Easter Descent because you are worried about some ridiculous PC concept.
The whole point of racial profiling is to act on reason. Searching little kids is not acting more reasonably because you are not using a good profile. The little kids get searched when you are being forced to act randomly instead of profiling. Wouldn't you agree that it would make sense to search the young Middle Eastern males between the age of fifteen and fifty? Wouldn't you agree that they are more likely to be terrorists? Of course, they probably aren't, and it is possible that the grandmother from Des Moines is, but you need to go with the odds. Isn't that what is reasonable? Racial, religious, ethnic and religious profiling are all tools added to the arsenal. To take them out of the arsenal is just plain stupid.
I knew it was too much to expect for some people on this board to acknowledge the painfully obvious.
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And the only reason there are more Blacks than Whites in prison is because the Blacks commit more crimes. So, if I'm a cop in Rancho Mirage and I see a balck male in his 20s, it only makes sense for me to stop and search him, right?
I mean, sure, he is an American and he
theoretically has the same rights as the rest of us, but you can't ignore statitstics, can you? How else are we gonna keep the White women safe?
