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Ottawa Police and Racial Profiling

This is just another load of crap. Another young black kid playing the race card, "Umm yeah, I didn't go to jail cause I killed somebody. I went to jail cause I'm black." :rolleyes -> that type of bullshit. You hear so much of this bullshit, that it sickens me. Unless this guy has concrete proof that he was pulled over because he was black then I have no reason to believe him. What happens when a black officer pulls me over for no reason? I can't say anything cause I'm a "priviledge white man".

The only offense I see here is that the cop didn't want to give the guy his badge number which is a punishable offense.
 
I heard the tapes that the black kid made and it made me shudder. IIRC, the cop (alledgedly) said his badge number was 666 and he said something about his name being the "sign of Mohammed" (whatever that means?). Unless this police officer can justify why he pulled him over, I think he's in trouble.
 
Mislav:
Maybe there's a reason for "so much of this bullshit". Can you justify why you doubt the victim's claims?

What happens when a black officer pulls me over for no reason? I can't say anything cause I'm a "priviledge white man".
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How often does that happen? The majority of my friends are Caucasian, and yet they do not report these types of experiences with police. It's not that it can't happen, but the issue is that profiling against minorities happens regularly; that's something that doesn't happen to the majority, because they are the majority.

The reason for the lack of trust from minority communities for the police is that so many people from these communities have bad experiences with police when they are doing nothing but walking down the street, or driving nice cars (FYI, another discussion on this forum about racial profiling involved another black man who was stopped for driving a Mercedes).

Last week I interviewed Joel Reodica on CIUT (UofT radio) about the killing of his brother Jeffrey one year ago, by a plain-clothes police officer. The facts of that case are shocking, and the entire Filipino community is up in arms - as they should be considering the behaviour of the police, the SIU, and the coroner. The problem is widespread and systemic.

BTW, I guess you missed the news about racial profiling among Kingston's police:

The report, compiled by University of Toronto criminology professor Scot Wortley from data collected by Kingston officers, found blacks were more than three times more likely than whites to be stopped by police. Aboriginal people were 1.4 times more likely to be stopped.

Those figures were likely conservative, given that officers submitted the data themselves, Wortley said.
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Re: Unknown

Yeah, yeah, the police are racist, shouldn't be surpising to anyone. I'm not South Asian or black, so the racial profiling isn't as bad, but I still don't like the police.

**** the police!
 
Re: Unknown

^ Well, I'll say this for you, your sig is dead-on accurate.
 
Re: Unknown

Yeah, yeah, the police are racist, shouldn't be surpising to anyone. I'm not South Asian or black, so the racial profiling isn't as bad, but I still don't like the police.
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The irony of the statement "the police (unitary group of people) are racist (characteristic)" seems to be lost on you. Oh well, hopefully you won't reproduce.
 
Re: Unknown

Hey, there a story in the Star awhile back about how Kingston police had apologize to blacks in this problem because of this problem. You can deny it all you want, but the problem is real. It is not necessarily because of the individuals are racists, it's just the way they have been trained.
 
Re: Unknown

Right, they have been trained to look for the suspects that are reported to them. What the Kingston study lacks is corresponding data on the rate of blacks commiting crime in proportion to their population as a whole in Kingston. Only then would it make sense to see whether or not anyone is being "profiled". Without that data, allegations of profiling are just that, allegations. You only have half the picture. If blacks, or anyone else, are being stopped in roughly the same numbers as those people who are reported to the police as commiting crime, then the police are simply doing their job. Anything else is pure politics. That chief in Kingston is a spineless embarassment.
 
Unless this police officer can justify why he pulled him over, I think he's in trouble.
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So in other words, he's guilty until proven innoncent just because the kid happened to be black? :rolleyes
 
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