On 9/25/2016 3:21 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.

I've seen troubling stats that say blacks are stopped in cars in far greater
numbers in the daytime than they are at night while the day/night proportion
of white traffic stops stays pretty constant. The implication is that when
the cops can see a black driver, they are much more likely to pull them over
than a white one.

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


Figures lie and liars figure. The "fact" of the matter is that
statistics can be twisted to support any position - especially easy if
not provided in context.

A decade or so claims such as this very one: drivers stopped for
"driving while black" was placed against the rather exclusive North
Shore suburb (Chicago) of Highland Park, Illinois.

Figures quoted by the whiners sure supported that contention until you
actually looked at the numbers AND reviewed some of the anecdotal
information.

The majority of the stops took place along US 41 or I-90, both major
routes through the city used by commuters. At the north end you had
Waukegan, Gurnee, North Chicago and numerous others with a good
industrial base, military and service industry presence which employed
a majority of non-white and Hispanic employees. To the south and west
you had Chicago and numerous suburbs supplying that very labor force.

Was it unreasonable to assume that perhaps the larger number of
non-whites/Hispanics stopped along the main thoroughfares was the result
of a higher percentage of non-white/Hispanics driving those roads vs.
whites?

Apparently that was the case as the whining didn't seem to get anywhere.

One of the high points of that spat was Michael Jordan's wife taking to
the MSM in defense of Highland Park (where she and MJ lived at the time)
to speak of instances where African American friends of theirs had been
stopped for traffic violations by the local police and that their
friends remarked that they were wrong, the stop was justified and they
were treated with respect - just as it should be.