By your logic, why did al-Qaeda use 19 Arab men as hijackers for the 9/11 attacks? People of a different race and/or gender would have been more suitable.
Why did ISIL use Arab men for the Paris attacks? People of a different race and/or gender would have been more suitable.
Why did ISIL use Arab men for the Brussels attacks? People of a different race and/or gender would have been more suitable.
Etc. etc.
Was there profiling in place at the time and in the places where those people would have experienced it, and was “Arab male” the characteristics they were looking for?
Likewise for your further two.
Why would “a different race or gender” have been more suitable? Seems the ones they used were perfectly suitable.
And how about these “Arab men” recently arrested in the US under terrorism laws and charges of supporting ISIS… look at all the scary Arab Muslim names: Michael Todd Wolfe, Shannon Maureen Conley, Christopher Cornell, Adam Dandach, Douglas McCain, Donald Ray Morgan …
Etc. etc.
Good luck trying to pinpoint whether someone is “Middle Eastern” looking. There’s not a people on the face of the Earth who are more racially ambiguous.
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Ah, I can help here - no, I don’t want that. Please do not attempt to protect me by utilizing racial profiling. A black or white person doing nothing more than walking around a neighborhood in which he or she does not “belong” is no longer grounds for suspicion. You’re welcome, police.
Please use the time productively. I’d suggest ignoring drivers who go a bit over the posted MPH and pulling over people who don’t use turn signals or drive slowly in the left lane. I think they’re far more dangerous.
Security wasn’t so tight back then. And recruiting people of different races isn’t easy.
No, because neither attack involved going through airport security, and that security doesn’t do racial profiling anyway, so it wouldn’t have helped.
I think this is a great idea. That’s why I think every white man should have to go through metal detectors before they enter a school, movie theater, and/or church.
And that should wrap this up.
White men do not commit a disproportionate number of homicides. The only reason why there are a lot of homicides committed by white men is because there are a lot of white men. If you want to discriminate on the basis of race, discriminate against black men: they are the ones responsible for 42% of homicides despite only being 6% of the population.
To tell you the truth, I’ve never understood the rationale we have to target those [insert minority here] for safety.
If a given security measure is good/safe/non-invasive/respectful/effective enough to use towards people of race/religion A then its damn well good enough towards people of race/religion B/C/D/E/… Creating some sort of [my group] exceptionalism defeats your entire argument, if the state can’t be bothered to treat everyone under the same rules then it’s not serious about either the threat and/or the treatment.
I mean really; what good is a dam that’s built 90% of the way across a river? This is elementary reasoning.
All I know is I’ve never been afraid when a black guy walked into a movie theater or a school.
They do, however, commit a disproportionate number of mass shootings, especially in places like movie theaters, schools and churches.
I’m a lot less worried about being murdered by a black inner-city gang member than I am about getting caught in the bulletstorm of a middle-class white guy taking out his frustrations on a random crowd in a typically middle-class public place.
(Although to be fair, as a statistics-conscious reasonable person I’m not seriously realistically worried about either of those alternatives.)
They do commit a disproportionate number of mass killings in theaters, schools, and business offices.
Any appearance-based profiling that does not rely on racism must focus on white males in those locations.
We are already doing that–providing significant evidence that calls for appearance-based profiling are merely racist and not logical.
Are people in this thread really suggesting that profiling is binary?
Originally Posted by Police Chief Benjamin Fox
I think that most police officers are finding the national rhetoric about police abuse and racial profiling quite upsetting.
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Sounds like a more appropriate headline would be:
[FONT="]Chief Takes Leave To Have [FONT="]His Head Removed From His Ass[/FONT]
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No. Chief Fox did.
And yet ISIL successfully recruits young white kids by the score.
Beating suspects until they confess is also an economical, common sense police tactic. Why don’t we do that too?
If the chief needs a slogan, maybe he could use; Racism. It works.
Short, snappy, to the point.