Comments on: Those LAPD Profiling Stats http://themoderatevoice.com/23735/those-lapd-profiling-stats/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 21:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: JSpencer http://themoderatevoice.com/23735/those-lapd-profiling-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-160535 JSpencer Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:20:38 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-enforcement/23735/those-lapd-profiling-stats/#comment-160535 Just a few days ago we had a poster here who was claiming the definition of a stereotype was : "Something everyone deep down knows to be true". I guess it's no surprise there is a wider acceptance of negative generalizing, even when it's proven to be inaccurate. I don't quite know what to make of the expressed surprise on the part of people whose bais is confronted. Is it done unconsciously or is it just denial? Obviously we still have serious problems in this area - problems which might be more likely to be addressed if the same amount of profiling was taking place on, say... white people. Just a few days ago we had a poster here who was claiming the definition of a stereotype was : “Something everyone deep down knows to be true”. I guess it's no surprise there is a wider acceptance of negative generalizing, even when it's proven to be inaccurate. I don't quite know what to make of the expressed surprise on the part of people whose bais is confronted. Is it done unconsciously or is it just denial? Obviously we still have serious problems in this area – problems which might be more likely to be addressed if the same amount of profiling was taking place on, say… white people.

]]> By: xjeff http://themoderatevoice.com/23735/those-lapd-profiling-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-160512 xjeff Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:32:36 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-enforcement/23735/those-lapd-profiling-stats/#comment-160512 David,<br>I worked the graveyard shift at UCLA in Westwood under the CETA program in '74. One of the guys on the shift was a tall black guy who had an afro and drove cadillac from central L.A. (poor and black). to Westwood (rich and white). He was late to work at least 2-3 times a week because he would get rousted by the cops on the way to work. He eventually got fired because he was always late for work. Seems like nothing has changed.<br><br>In the book Working by Studs Terkel, I remember in his interview with a cop, the cop said that the first person he would hassle was a black in a cadillac, the second was a hippie in a VW Van. David,
I worked the graveyard shift at UCLA in Westwood under the CETA program in '74. One of the guys on the shift was a tall black guy who had an afro and drove cadillac from central L.A. (poor and black). to Westwood (rich and white). He was late to work at least 2-3 times a week because he would get rousted by the cops on the way to work. He eventually got fired because he was always late for work. Seems like nothing has changed.

In the book Working by Studs Terkel, I remember in his interview with a cop, the cop said that the first person he would hassle was a black in a cadillac, the second was a hippie in a VW Van.

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