New York Police Prohibited from Identifying Suspects by Race
July 12, 2013
KARL D. writes:
I believe that one day crime victims will be charged with a crime if they identify their attacker as black or Latino.
Buck writes:
At the other end of the anti-racial profiling worm-hole; the police in San Jose must record the race of every person that they stop and question.
Which element of our population is having its behavior most constrained and modified by the state? Which element appears, by all of this, to be more suspect? The police or those that fit the profile of a criminal?
By the way, I’ve read this quote in the New York Daily News story several times: “I want to live in a safe city. I want to live in a city that is free from fear. I want to live in a city where my family and my neighbors aren’t terrorized — not by police officers but by the violent criminals.” What in the world does that mean? That he wants to be terrorized by violent criminals rather than by police officers?