# White Privilage **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 9, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-privilage/808511 "2018-02-09T14:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 98
**Author:** ![SteveMonon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SteveMonon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveMonon)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-privilage/808511/98 "2018-02-11T13:51:55Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > I have a semi-rhetorical question, are black or brown police officers in urban centers more likely to pull over someone with their own skin color as well? Of course they’re. They know who commit the disproportionate number of crimes and base their actions accordingly. It’s just common sense. Look at Bodymore. The majority of policemen are black. The mayor is black. The state attorney is black. White privilege :rolleyes: Remember that recent case where a black criminal with a rap sheet longer than Wilt Chamberlain’s arms died in police custody? Then we had the idiots blocking traffic, state attorney charging (mostly black) officers with god knows know (all of the charges got tossed out of court and she’s now herself being sued by the officers for malicious prosecution). The outcome was mundanely predictable: [the silly “Nobody kill nobody” weekend](http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/us/baltimore-ceasefire-weekend/index.html) (take a wild guess on how many people were killed during it) and Bodymore [setting the record for number of murders.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-homicide-murder-rate-highest-2017-crime-increase-freddie-gray-killing/) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-privilage/808511)._