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At 01:08 AM 9/10/02 -0500, Zach Bair wrote: >As an ex Air Force cop and EST (SWAT) team member, I totally agree. I'm >sorry, but you don't see a pack of Soccer Moms (at least not usually) >wearing gang regalia and stealing stereos! Soccer Moms aren't a racial group. (The pose their own threat, in SUVs, cellphone in ear, oblivious to cars, pedestrians, and small animals in their path, the width of which they do not know.) You don't need to racially profile to pick out kids in gang regalia and cars that are beyond the ordinary teenagers' means hanging around a place where teens don't usually hang, as suspicious. In other words, you can detect 'bad guys' without resorting to racism or racial profiling. Conversely, the need to detect bad guys is not and should not be a good excuse for racism. Greg ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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