On 9/25/2016 4:21 PM, Robert Green wrote:
"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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Statistics are not evidence. Yes, it happens far too often but you do
not yet have evidence that he was treated any different because of his
color. Seems at though you made an assumption.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us...ing-black.html

Documenting racial profiling in police work is devilishly difficult,
because a multitude of factors - including elevated violent crime rates in
many black neighborhoods - makes it hard to tease out evidence of bias from
other influences. But an analysis by The New York Times of tens of thousands
of traffic stops and years of arrest data in this racially mixed city of
280,000 [GREENSBORO, N.C]uncovered wide racial differences in measure after
measure of police conduct.

Those sorts of discrepancies appear in lots of other jurisdictions:


The above observations say a lot. There are clearly racial disparities in
police tactics and those differences can explain a lot of what appears to be
a much greater involvment of blacks in crime than whites.


You don't need fancy studies to know racism and profiling exists. My
point was, as soon as a white cop stops a black person they scream it is
racism. Sure, sometimes it is, but not every time so we should not jump
to conclusions right away. It is not profiling when a guy stops his car
in the middle of the street and gets out. This guy happens to be black.