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Report: I was a racial profiler: Ex-cop says he used skin color to make arrests

By: Big Apple Infidel (Diary)  |  August 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 AM  | 

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This story posted on the NY Daily News by a retired NYPD detective outlines shocking and heinous racial profiling activities.  Hopefully the Justice Department will look into these first-hand allegations.

I was a racial profiler: Ex-cop says he used skin color to make arrests

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  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    Not because of trouble with the rec button but because of what Art and Brian said above. I’d follow Brian’s advice if I were you, Big Apple. Be a shame to see this get redacted. The admins and moderators here are pretty sensitive to copyright issues, as they should be.

  • nessa

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  • Warrior

    I once heard a police officer say ALL police work is profiling by the use of one characteristic or another. I used to laugh at the local TV stations who, in their agonized panting to be totally PC, would describe a local bank robbery suspect as “a male, five- eleven, two-hundred pounds, wearing a tee-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes.” Well, that eliminates half the city, but it’s not very descriptive.

    Besides, officers are only human. If they spemd all day arresting black guys, they get used to arresting black guys — even if they themselves are black. Indeed, the highest rate of police shooting black suspects is in Washington DC, where most of the police, city council and the mayor is black.

    If one eliminates race as a reason to stop someone, how many other pertinent factors are there? A man, wearing a tee shirt, jeans and tennis shoes…It’s king of like Janet Nepolitano’s description of “right-wing extremists”, it kinda’ fits half the population at large.

    Finally, the idea that cops pull over blacks and harrass them for fun is pretty much an outdated stereo-type from the sixties, if it was ever real. Sure, there are bad cops, just like there are bad grocers and bad garbage men, but as long as we are dealing with human beings, it’s just something that will have to be dealt with on an individual basis. To assume all white (or black) cops are racist is, well, racist.

    • mom2oneson

      My jr year in high school I lived in a house with two boys my age. They *always* carried ID on them to show to the cops. I had never heard of cops stopping and asking us for ID before I asked them why they carried that with them. At the time I thought of them in the backseat of a cop car I didn’t really understand what they were talking about but now I remember. I didn’t even get an ID except for a passport that I used for employment until after I had my son and learned how to drive. I sure did not carry that passport around with me. I don’t know what this means but I know in Philly in the 90s cops in that area did stop teenage boys but not girls.

      • Warrior

        I didn’t mean just for “fun”. I was being somewhat flippant. From what I gather from black activists, the cops suposedly get some kind of kick out of harrassing black folk, thus the phrase “Driving while black”, etc.

        Most police I know simply want a quiet shift so they can get home to the family right after work. Many people don’t realize that every arrest requires mounds of paperwork to support it, and many officers end up staying way after their shift to fill out reports and what not. Their incentive is NOT to make arrests and/or cause any unnecessary trouble.

        As far as ID laws, I guess they are different in different locales, but I’ve always heard citizens are required to carry ID. It certainly makes sense and what’s the big deal anyway? A non-driver’s ID costs about $10 to $15 in most states. How hard is it to get one and put it in your pocket. Gee whiz, it’s not like anyone is being asked to put forth any big effort or anything…

        • mom2oneson

          I know you didn’t really mean just for fun. I guess I was saying that at least in Philly cops did just stop teenage boys and ask for them ID. They never did it to me and the only difference was our gender. I am going to guess it wasn’t to arrest them but maybe to intimidate them? I don’t know but for some reason teenage boys were routinely asked for ID and I never was and the only difference is I was a girl.

          That is kind of upsetting about the ID laws. I disagree that we should be required to keep ID on it us. What age would that start it? I don’t see what basis they have for making that law. If you are doing employment paperowrk or getting government benefits or traveling outside the country or buying alcohol or or driving you shouldn’t have to need ID just to show to the cops. From the Gates/Crowley thread I’m the only RS’er though that has a problem with it! :-)

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  • Warrior

    it might not have been necessary.

    I agree, it smacks of totalitarianism, “Show me ze papers old man.”

    But with so many illegals running loose, it’s seems necessary.

    Maybe the govt could just enforce immigration laws and stop them at the border….

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  • http://briansimpson.wordpress.com Brian Simpson

    this constitutes an abuse of “fair use”. Try rewriting it and quote from the article while including your own commentary. It’s a great message and it would be a great shame to see the moderators remove the article to protect the site from being in violation of copyright law.

  • Big Apple Infidel

    and done