police work/racial profiling

[Dusty MacMorgan]

Guess I might as well jump in with both feet.  Of Course it's racial
profiling!  Profiling is a legitimate part of police work.  If 19
short, plump, white, "blonde", middle-aged American women had murdered
4,000 civilians, in cold blood, in the space of a few hours, would I,
as a s.p.w.b.m.a.w, feel outraged if I was treated with some suspicion
by law enforcement?  No!  I'd be outraged (and worried) if I were not!
   As for the drug "analogy"...get busted walking down the street
smokin' a doobie, and yeah, your friends and family might get
scrutinizied. Drive an airplane into a skyscraper...  So?
   (But thanks for the kind words when I first "applied for
membership," Jon. ;^}
---Margot 

> From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>
> To: michaele@ando.pair.com, austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> Subject: Re: police work
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:36:30 -0800
> 
> It smacks of racial profiling to me. How would us white folks respond
> to such a request? For instance, some of us use illegal drugs. How
> would you  feel about such an "interview"? Give me a break.
> 
> Jon
> 
> >From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>

> >I must say that the FBI letter to all the legal Arab
> >residents seems to be good police work. Hundreds are
> >leaving, some out of paranoia, others because they
> >would flunk the interview.



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