PC Makes Study of Racial Profiling DOA

FrontPageMag.com ^ | March 27, 2002 | Chris Weinkopf

[Radioheart]

PC Makes Study of Racial Profiling DOA
By Chris Weinkopf

Researchers at the Public Service Research Institute have committed a "crime" against political correctness in their just-completed taxpayer-funded study into charges of rampant racial profiling among New Jersey state troopers. continue...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

...have committed a "crime" against political correctness...

Where do I sign up to do that too?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Researchers at the Public Service Research Institute have committed a "crime" against political correctness

The crime was having an open mind. It was in the result, not the topic.

[Tai_Chung]

How can the Public Service Research Institute do a study on Racial Profiling without doing Racial Profiling for themselves?

[white trash redneck]

The Bush administration's attempt to suppress this report suggests that it is as politically correct as its predecessor. When will we see a Republican administration with spine on domestic issues?

[Pearls Before Swine]

The Bush administration's attempt to suppress this report suggests that it is as politically correct as its predecessor. When will we see a Republican administration with spine on domestic issues?

Don't hold your breath. Such an administration would be unelectable with the current state of popular education, ignorance, and indoctrination.

[Still Thinking]

When the government does such a study, they should be required to release it to the public, period, even if it does show racial profiling. The linked article said that the DOJ was citing concerns over the methodology in the study, and in statistical studies methodology definitely can make all the difference. Anyone who wishes to have the right to contest the study should have the opportunity to review the methodology before the study is done and/or before the results are public. That way, if they don't like the study based on the results, it will be too late to cry foul, because they already publicly accepted the methodology. If they can show that the study was performed not following the rules they accepted, or can show bias on the people conducting the study, then they can squawk.

[Mack the knife]

Shouldn't this study be available under the Freedom of Information Act????? I can think of no reason that a judge would agree with to withhold the results of a taxpayer funded study.

[white trash redneck]

Don't hold your breath. Such an administration would be unelectable with the current state of popular education, ignorance, and indoctrination.

So no wonder I've been turning blue!

Seriously, though, it's disappointing that the administration tried to deep six this, treating the truth as an inconvenience.

[Tymesup]

Heather MacDonald discusses the study in the New York Post, March 27. Some stats:

Blacks make up 16% of the drivers on the turnpike
Blacks make up 25% of the speeders in the 65-mph zones
Blacks speed twice as much as whites, and speed at reckless levels even more

Yet, blacks are stopped 23% of the time - less than their speeding behavior would predict.

The Justice Department questioned the study - the driver identifications, the completeness of the data - which did not affect the conclusions.

[William Terrell]

Unless from the WP or the LAT, please post the entire article. The links posted are temporary. If one were to pull this thread from the archives later, the posts to it would be meaningless because the original article would be unavailable.

If you don't care about the logic, just do it because Jim Robinson wants you to. In his comments on 11/27/1999 are these words:

Our chosen vehicle for dissent is to use the media's own words against them. We post their propaganda pieces and then our readers tear them apart and expose the lies and corruption within. It's also interesting to document how the lying liberal press covers events compared to other, less biased sources and it's even more interesting to see it weeks, months or years later when the truth is finally known.

This is why it is important to post articles in their entirety. Many of the media sites remove their articles within a few days of release and in some cases, even the next day. We've even caught the media changing stories by the hour to make them seem less damaging to the government or to certain protected politicians. The media is part of the enemy and thus cannot be trusted.

Do you get it? Or do you just not give a crap.

[Lazamataz]

I refuse to read your stuff. You don't provide enough material to read.