Have Greg Hestness give Corkey Finney a call and ask him how he did it.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, wizardmarks wrote:
> Sorry, David, my bad. What I know is that turning a serious issue into a buzz
> word without any agreement on what it actually means (an I don't know exactly
> what it means), gives rise to Don Shelby pontificating and it dismisses the
> issue to something small and hideable. This issue should not be small-ized.
> That's what I mean by becoming a buzzword.
>
> David Wilson wrote:
>
> > Wizard
> >
> > When you call "racial profiling" a "buzz word" you are, in my opinion,
> > implying that it is somehow trendy and of the moment. Blacks and other
> > minorities have been struggling with the impact of the concept before it
> > had a name.
> >
> > This is a complex issue. When the media get hold of an issue, there is a
> > tendancy to turn it into a buzz word. Suddenly Don Shelby is
> > pontificating about a new practice that is the news. The same can be said
> > for the newspapers. Their stories highlight the phenomenon and then
> > everything is seen through this lens. Yet the recipants of such police
> > behavior have been complaining all along that they are being
> > targeted. But since the "stops" are of individuals the mainstream media
> > (and by extention--the rest of the society) haven't seen a pattern. When
> > civil rights groups, black community leaders, and defense attorney
> > associations mount a public awareness campaign , then, after much too long
> > a time, it comes up on the public "radar screen."
>
> I agree.
>
> > Certainly the Minneapolis police department has a valuable perspective on
> > the patterns and practice of racial profiling. I, like Tim and some other
> > posters to this list, don't see how they can justify sitting on the data
> > and not finding a way of releasing the analyized data that is "above
> > reproach."
>
> I don't see any reason not to release it, cause the truth will probably set
> you free, and moreover, we won't get a solution without looking at the
> problem. That's a no brainer.
>
> What I also saw in Creg Hestness' opinion piece and in other list posts, was a
> huge gulf filled with a roaring stream of mis-trust going both ways. Hestness
> asks, if we give you this info, will you use it as a club to beat us with.
> That's a fair question. So how do we get to the point where we can say, OK,
> polices, this was your bad (if that turns out to be true) how are you gonna
> fix it, how can we help you fix it, and, can we trust you to fix it. I don't
> have the answer to my questions. Further, being the daughter of a petty
> criminal, I was raised to keep the police at more than arm's length, so I'm
> also asking myself to get past some of my conditioning.
> Wizard Marks, Central
>
> >
> >
> > David Wilson'
> > Loring Park
>
>
>
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