Miami-area Police Used Black Men's Mug Shots for Target Practice

newsmax ^ | Jan. 16, 2015 | Melissa Clyne

[PROCON]

Nice find.

[ThunderSleeps]

...bullet-riddled mug shots of black men left behind included her brother, from his arrest 15 years earlier...

Sounds to me like the department was cleaning out old files and decided to recycle/reuse photos as targets. Seems like a good green policy to me. That of course assumes they worked out the range/scale issues if the prints were not life sized.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

If Woody Deant actually had a bullet hole in his eye (instead of in the eye of his picture, which is not the same thing in any mind advanced beyond primitive concepts), would he be called No-Eye Deant?

[defconw]

Good point. They were just trying to reduce their carbon footprint.

[defconw]

I wish I had so little to worry about, don’t you? Cops shooting at lifeless zerox paper is cause for alarm? WOW! The whole world has gone crazy!

[V_TWIN]

It’s like Blood of Tyrants said, they think theres some free $$ in it. eric holder to investigate in 3,2,1.....

[liberalh8ter]

My thought, exactly!

[dowcaet]

See multiculturalism is alive and well. What are these people complaining about?

[W.]

I considered grabbing that pic and sticking a pair of jug ears on it. Then I reconsidered, and decided to just laugh at the mental image instead. Bet it’d sell big, though!

[Eagles6]

That’s what I was looking for.

[defconw]

Exactly! Follow the money!

[armydawg505]

The family contacted a lawyer? $$$$ on their minds!

[HMS Surprise]

What the story doesn’t explain up front is that the actual racial make-up of the Miami police force is multi-culti.

[HMS Surprise]

What the story doesn’t explain up front is that the actual racial make-up of the Miami police force is multi-culti.

[Labyrinthos]

Racial profiling was not a factor in the photos, Dennis said, who noted that the sniper team includes minority officers. He said using mug shots for target practice is a common technique and helps with vital facial recognition drills. White and Hispanic males' photographs are also used, he added.

It helps with "facial recognition skills?" Smells like total BS to me. "Black male, fire, white male, Hispanic male, hold your fire." Regardless , of whether this amounts to racial profiling, it does amount to poor taste and judgment when there are so many alternative training tools that are widely available to serve the same purpose. Indeed, the police officers could have used their own photos for target practice.

[Fresh Wind]

That’s racist!

[Labyrinthos]

“The Deant family has contacted a lawyer, Andell Brown.” FOR WHAT???<

Many states have strict "right to privacy laws" that prohibit a person from using another person's image for commercial or business purposes without consent.

[Mark17]

As opposed to using pregnant white girls as targets?

I am sure the professional racists out there would have no problems with that.

[Cold Heart]

A recent study showed that police will hesitate more at shooting black men than whites or asians. Don’t know, maybe that is why they were using the pics.

[Farmer Dean]

“FOR WHAT??”
Why,for the customary aggrieved minority money quest,of course.