I was being driven home Tuesday night. It was after dark, and the (black) driver was driving slow along my street, looking for the house (I’ve only been there 2 weeks, the route isn’t second nature yet), a Holbrook cop pulled aside the car, and asked what he was doing,“looking for a house,” was ther reply. I said to the driver,“would that have happened if you were white?” Hios answer,“Uh, no!” ITA’d
Holbrook, LI? If so, waddup from Nassau!
While I believe that DWB is a real issue, I am not sure that your driver was actually competent to answer the question you asked. How often has he been a white driver moving slowly down the street in the same neighborhood?
Deb was pulled over in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago. She is currently working for a hospice agency as an overnight emergency nurse and got a call to see a lady in pain in the inner city. The street sign she was looking for had been torn down and she was cruisng slowly along at around 4:30 when a couple of cops pulled her over to make sure she wasn’t looking for drugs. A white, middle aged, red-head in a minivan doesn’t seem like a strong criminal profile to me, but I’m not a cop in Cleveland’s poorer sections.
I do know of genuine DWB stops and yours may have been one, but I think you would need to see a pattern to be sure.