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originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: intrepid
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: intrepid
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
I saw the pic of the three. One has a tattoo on his right shoulder. Did she see it? Aside from that what other identifiers are there? Remember, this is a person that been frightened. It's not like she's taking notes.
Listen you are preaching to the choir, say they are black!!!
The problem is this lady spent her whole life saying you should NOT say they are black.
Uh huh and in a rational state of mind that would make sense. Does she sound like she's in a rational state?
I do not become racist when I panic, do you? She reverted to her base instinct, which told her there was value in giving a racial description.
Guess what? THERE IS!
originally posted by: intrepid
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: intrepid
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: intrepid
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
I saw the pic of the three. One has a tattoo on his right shoulder. Did she see it? Aside from that what other identifiers are there? Remember, this is a person that been frightened. It's not like she's taking notes.
Listen you are preaching to the choir, say they are black!!!
The problem is this lady spent her whole life saying you should NOT say they are black.
Uh huh and in a rational state of mind that would make sense. Does she sound like she's in a rational state?
I do not become racist when I panic, do you? She reverted to her base instinct, which told her there was value in giving a racial description.
Guess what? THERE IS!
She didn't become racist. Cripes that a Herculean leap. She told them what she saw. Let me know how good your bladder is when you're a 66 yo woman... who's only thoughts at the time were her 79 yo husband and her dogs.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
What I get from that ACLU quote is that if the description includes other identifying features besides race then, someone who is stopped and maybe brought in for questioning because they fit the whole description can't claim racial profiling, because they fit the description beyond just race.
Maybe it's just a case of you seeing what you want to see.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
It's definitely a case of that .. for you.
The definition is clear.
There is nothing in the ACLU's definitions that talk about preventing subjects from claiming racial profiling. Their definitions are aimed at preventing the profiling, and describe what is acceptable and what is not.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
It's definitely a case of that .. for you.
I don't really care all that much about it so I am thinking that I can be a bit more objective about it.
The definition is clear.
That is subjective and the way the college is implementing it can also be off.
There is nothing in the ACLU's definitions that talk about preventing subjects from claiming racial profiling. Their definitions are aimed at preventing the profiling, and describe what is acceptable and what is not.
Seems to me you posted an example of when it is acceptable. It did say "Racial profiling does not refer to ...".
"Racial Profiling" refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. Criminal profiling, generally, as practiced by police, is the reliance on a group of characteristics they believe to be associated with crime. Examples of racial profiling are the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic violations (commonly referred to as "driving while black or brown"), or the use of race to determine which pedestrians to search for illegal contraband.
Another example of racial profiling is the targeting, ongoing since the September 11th attacks, of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians for detention on minor immigrant violations in the absence of any connection to the attacks on the World Trade Center or the Pentagon.
Law enforcement agent includes a person acting in a policing capacity for public or private purposes. This includes security guards at department stores, airport security agents, police officers, or, more recently, airline pilots who have ordered passengers to disembark from flights, because the passengers' ethnicity aroused the pilots' suspicions. Members of each of these occupations have been accused of racial profiling.
Racial profiling does not refer to the act of a law enforcement agent pursuing a suspect in which the specific description of the suspect includes race or ethnicity in combination with other identifying factors.
Defining racial profiling as relying “solely” on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin or religion can be problematic. This definition found in some state racial profiling laws is unacceptable, because it fails to include when police act on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin or religion in combination with an alleged violation of all law. Under the “solely” definition, an officer who targeted Latino drivers who were speeding would not be racial profiling because the drivers were not stopped “solely” because of their race but also because they were speeding. This would eliminate the vast majority of racial profiling now occurring.
Any definition of racial profiling must include, in addition to racially or ethnically discriminatory acts, discriminatory omissions on the part of law enforcement as well. For example, during the eras of lynching in the South in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's, southern sheriffs sat idly by while racists like the Ku Klux Klan terrorized African Americans. At times, the sheriffs would even release black suspects to the lynch mobs. A recent example would be the complaint by an African American man in Maryland, who after moving into a white community, was attacked and subjected to property damage. Local police failed to respond to his repeated complaints until they arrested him for shooting his gun into the air, trying to disperse a hostile mob outside his home.
originally posted by: Abysha
Oh my word, it doesn't say that. I didn't want to quote such a lengthy thing but it looks to be necessary. This is the whole thing you keep quoting:
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
How about you finish that sentence .. does not refer to using race/gender when you include other identifying markers.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: Abysha
Oh my word, it doesn't say that. I didn't want to quote such a lengthy thing but it looks to be necessary. This is the whole thing you keep quoting:
I read the whole thing. It says exactly what I said. Can you show me exactly where they say it is perfectly fine to use ONLY race and gender with NO other identifiers?
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
How about you finish that sentence .. does not refer to using race/gender when you include other identifying markers.
It was already posted and that is also what my post said.
I don't see how you are getting something else but like I said it really doesn't matter much to me.
Racial profiling does not refer to the act of a law enforcement agent pursuing a suspect in which the specific description of the suspect includes race or ethnicity in combination with other identifying factors.
The new policy, however, will no longer include racial descriptions in most circumstances.
This new policy was evident from a University of Minnesota Crime Alert issued this Monday in which a student was a victim of a criminal sexual assault over the weekend:
“The victim describes the suspect as a male, approximately five feet eight inches to five feet eleven inches tall with a medium build. The suspect is between the ages of 25 and 28 years old and spoke with an accent.”
The race or a similar physical description of the suspect is not mentioned.
originally posted by: Abysha
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: Abysha
Oh my word, it doesn't say that. I didn't want to quote such a lengthy thing but it looks to be necessary. This is the whole thing you keep quoting:
I read the whole thing. It says exactly what I said. Can you show me exactly where they say it is perfectly fine to use ONLY race and gender with NO other identifiers?
Wait... so now a definition has to include all the things a term isn't as well as what it is? That would be one long dictionary.
APPLE
noun
1. the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family.
2. not an orange.
3. not a horse.
4. not abstract art.
5. not racial profiling.
Oh good! One down.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
In this case we have a person using race without other descriptions.
originally posted by: mOjOm
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
In this case we have a person using race without other descriptions.
Yes she did. Description 2: They're robbing my house.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
So using race in conjunction with other descriptions is fine. Using race without other descriptions is not fine.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
That's not a description of them, but of their actions. Racial profiling. At least according to this Judge and the ACLU. As far as I am concerned you are absolutely right.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
So using race in conjunction with other descriptions is fine. Using race without other descriptions is not fine.
In the act by law enforcement in the persuit of a suspect not in the description by the victim.
Someone already pointed that out and it is right there in what you quoted.
originally posted by: mOjOm
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
In this case we have a person using race without other descriptions.
Yes she did. Description 2: They're robbing my house.
Just like the example of latinos speeding. Latino is description 1 and speeding is 2.
Under the “solely” definition, an officer who targeted Latino drivers who were speeding would not be racial profiling because the drivers were not stopped “solely” because of their race but also because they were speeding.
This definition found in some state racial profiling laws is unacceptable