Nawww, profiling doesn't work. Why would anyone ever think it does?
Posted on 01/25/2015 11:00:28 AM PST by bgill
There’s something to be said about attending a small campus where you know the campus cops and they know you.
It’s eerie, isn’t it? I KNEW this would be Charles Blow’s progeny reading the headline and not even knowing the subject was black.
They just do it more systemically.
Nawww, profiling doesn't work. Why would anyone ever think it does?
“Yale? Well, I guess they have an Affirmative Action quota to fill.”
BadaBoom
t GUN POINT — by a Yale policeman bc he ‘fit the description’ of a suspect,’
Okay.. Exactly what is wrong with this? Nothing. He was left go when it was determined he was not the perosn. No harm no foul. Get over yourself.....
I’m sure they had something more than race.
Probably a vague height or age estimate.
That’s often all there is. Victims get excited.
“The suspect was described as “a tall, African-American, college-aged student wearing a black jacket and a red and white hat.””
I don't know. If he was a chemistry major he might well have done it on his own.
Tough crap.
I wouldn’t like it either but they are trying to determine if he was the guy they were looking for. They let him go when he wasn’t the guy. Just like ought to happen.
It can suck being innocent and being at the wrong (relative term) place at the wrong time. I’ve been there too and been accused of doing stuff I didn’t do because for example, my jacket looked like another persons’ jacket.
That’s silly. First years at Yale don’t have majors.
I am a middle-aged white man and I was detained at a highway rest stop and questioned by Virginia State Police because my pickup truck matched the description of a truck involved in a hit-and-run on I-81. It’s just the job they have to do.
40 yearsago a buddy of mine and I, on foot, got stopped by a cop who bailed our of his car screaming, his gun hand on his holster, for us to get across the hood of his cop car. It seems 8 miles away a break-in was reported 10 minutes prior. The suspect match our description because, like us, he was wearing blue jeans. Like 95% of twenty-somethings as well too.
We’re both white, by the way. One doesn’t have to be black to meet idiot cops.
Decent looking kid, but, depends on how he was dressed and what he was doing.
# nytimesop-edcolumist’schildrenslivesmatter (snark)
The suspect was described as “a tall, African-American, college-aged student wearing a black jacket and a red and white hat.”
Obviously they should have been looking for a white woman.
On a side note, I can’t tell you how many times I dreamed of pointing a gun at a New York Times op-ed columnist.
Oh great, just give me another fantasy....
Statistics are racist.
I would be super pissed too, if this happened to my son. Since when do cops need to point guns at people who they think may have commit a burglary? Whatever happened to calling the suspect over to the patrol car for an interview? And if the kid runs away, you know you’re on the right track... I suppose if this kid had ran in fear, the cop would have shot him.
Charles McRay Blow (born August 11, 1970) is an American journalist, and the current visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
Blow grew up in Gibsland, Louisiana.[1] He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in the same state. He has worked as a graphics director and art director for the Times and National Geographic.
In April 2008, he began publishing a column in the Times, featuring charts as a form of opinion journalism. His column originally appeared biweekly on Saturdays. In May 2009 it became a weekly feature, and twice weekly in December 2012. As of May 2014, it appears every Monday and Thursday. Increasingly it is an essay in text with no chart. Blow also wrote a blog entitled "By The Numbers" for the newspaper's website which was rarely updated and essentially discontinued in 2011.[2]
Blow is a single father of three children. One of his children goes to university and his twins are in high school. They live in Brooklyn, NY.[3] In 2014 Blow came out publicly as bisexual.[4][5] (WTF??)
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