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I am not Al Sharpton. In fact, I never could be and I don't want to try. I am also not Henry Louis Gates, a man with an undeniable contribution to the legacy of Black Scholarship in America. I am simply Boyce Watkins, the son of a 17-year-old mother and a father who happened to be a high-ranking police official for the past 28 years. I've argued with my father for decades, as his Bill Cosby-like views of the world have often made my face twist with confusion. But I listen to my father, because there is value in seeing...

Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, retained a lawyer. Why? He claims cops in Cambridge, Mass., racially profiled him. Here's what happened. Gates, "one of the nation's pre-eminent African-American scholars," writes The Boston Globe, was arrested about 1 p.m. at his home near Harvard Square by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in. "The incident," says the Globe, "raised concerns among some Harvard faculty that Gates was a victim of racial profiling." "Friends of Gates," writes the Globe, "said he was already in his home when police arrived. He...

Political correctness has always been a malignancy to the body of truth - whatever that truth may be. The willingness of some law enforcement agencies - particularly those directly involved in the security of this country - to shun the practice of "racial profiling" in the name of fairness and objectivity, i.e. political correctness, is not only antithetical to common sense but a genuine threat to security.In that spirit of inanity, here is a two-minute audio spot - a parody - that helps to demonstrate the absurdity of it all.It's an audio-only "commercial" that runs a little over two-minutes long.-

Too many people on the liberal side of the fence argue that illegal immigration is a racial issue. They believe that those of us who want to protect the US boarders are inspired by racism, trying to keep out Hispanics. Recent cases such as the Hezbollah Mole in the CIA case (Nada Nadim Prouty) and the terrorists targeting Army base after sneaking over the borders, highlight the reasons the United States true immigration reform without amnesty. How many others are out there-not to gather information but to launch terror attacks when the time is right. It is more difficult to...

Palo Alto Police Chief Lynne Johnson has again defended her department against charges of racial profiling, saying there's no conclusive evidence of it in the demographic data it collects about traffic stops.

The senator's tenure as a state legislator reveals him to be an old-fashioned, big government, race-conscious liberal.Barack Obama's neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, has a longstanding tradition of opening its pages to elected officials-from Chicago aldermen...senators. Obama himself, as a state senator, wrote more than 40 columns for the Herald, under the title "Springfield Report," between 1996 and 2004. Read in isolation, Obama's columns from the state capital tell us little. Placed in the context of political and policy battles then raging in Illinois, however, the young legislator's dispatches powerfully illuminate his political beliefs. Even more revealing are hundreds...

When Bigots Accuse by Clark Baker "I know, Officer - you're just stoppin’ me ‘cause I’m BLAAACK!” Cops hear it every day, and although millions of hours and tax dollars are wasted each year to disprove false allegations, many blacks (and guilt-ridden whites) consider the non-existence of racial profiling as proof of an institutional cover-up that corroborates its existence. Who needs more proof than that? Trial lawyer Merrick Bobb, who faked portions of the Christopher Commission Report, blames “… the impossibly high burden of proof…” for the exoneration of the falsely accused. While Bobb rejects the value of evidence, he...

The study by Queens College sociologist Harry Levin, titled “Marijuana Arrest Crusade,” accused police of purposely singling out minorities during the 10-year crackdown. It said that data provided by state Division of Criminal Justice Services showed that between 1997 and 2007, 52% of the suspects were black, 31% Hispanic, and only 15% white. The findings are further proof that “racial profiling is a fact of life on the streets of New York,” the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Donna Lieberman, told a news conference.

Profiling opponents erroneously or deceitfully claim that Timothy McVeigh was not profiled because he was white. http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19121920&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=623508&rfi=6 I am currently working on a four part series about crime and punishment ( or lack thereof) in America. It should be very enlightening and informative. Concurrently, I am working with the Bulletin to sponsor a symposium about this. I have inquired about the availability of Justices Scalia and Alito both of whom are from the Philadelphia area, as well as Joe Arpaio who worked with my father at DEA. If anyone can think of a good panel member let me know. It...

I posted this again due to a bad link the first time.Sorry for the inconvenience. I was aghast to hear that a couple of fine young students were stopped outside of a U.S Naval base in South Carolina. These two fine young men are “students” at the University of South Florida. Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed better known to his friends as “The Big Sherf” 24, Yousef Samir Megahed known to his friends as “Megadeth” 21 were stopped for speeding. This is the same University where Sami Al Arian worked before he was “racially profiled” and convicted of aiding Palestinian terrorists....

The York Daily Record/Sunday News and WGAL 8 want to know what York County residents think, so we're holding a town meeting to find out. Join hosts Mike Argento and Kim Lemon, along with other representatives from the Daily Record/Sunday News and WGAL, at 7 p.m. today at the White Rose Room of the York Expo Center. Its your chance to express opinions and offer suggestions about community issues, WGAL's news programming and the Daily Record/Sunday News coverage. The meeting will be free, informal and fun.

The Police Department has developed rules for investigating racial profiling complaints against officers to address issues raised by the U.S. Justice Department and LAPD inspector general during a review of previous probes, officials said Friday.

At 14, Rocky Harris knows the routine: You raise your hands high, you keep your mouth shut and you don’t dare move a muscle. Then the police officer’s gloved hands go up and down each leg, around your waist, across your chest and back, then down your shoulders to your wrists. When they don’t find guns or drugs, Rocky said, they let you go. He said that he had been searched, fruitlessly, at least three times since last summer, and that he had friends who had been searched repeatedly. “They tell you that you’re selling drugs. But I don’t do...

The End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) is a major threat. Terresa Monroe-Hamilton of Noisyroom.net points out: >"You’ll hear a lot about the End Racial Profiling Act – ERPA - in the next months: just what is ERPA, and why do we think it will seriously threaten our ability to protect the U.S. and our Allies? ERPA would bar any federal, state or local law enforcement agency from "relying, to any degree, on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion in selecting which individuals to subject to routine or spontaneous investigatory activities." That would include questioning, searches and seizures. >"ERPA failed to...

Cops and politicians call Interstate 95 the "Iron Pipeline" because it is a popular route for criminals smuggling firearms from the South into Newark and other Northeastern cities where gun violence abounds. A big link in that pipeline is the New Jersey Turnpike, where the State Police used to seize scores of guns every year. But they don't anymore. Gun arrests and gun seizures have plummeted on the Turnpike in the last decade, according to data provided by the State Police in response to a request under the Open Public Records Act. Since 1995, the number of gun-related arrests by...

The Myth of Racial Profiling The anti-"racial profiling" juggernaut must be stopped, before it obliterates the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in inner cities. The anti-profiling crusade thrives on an ignorance of policing and a willful blindness to the demographics of crime. Yet politicians are swarming on board. In February, President George W. Bush joined the rush, declaring portentously: "Racial profiling is wrong, and we will end it in America." Too bad no one asked President Bush: "What exactly do you mean by 'racial profiling,' and what evidence do you have that it exists?" For the anti-profiling crusaders...

This excellent article proves the media has lied when they say racial profiling is a fact. This is the link if it doesn't work then cut and paste to yor browser: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17674489&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

Good article debunks the myth that white people are not profiled for crimes - specifically the example of Timothy McViegh used by so many antiprofiling groups like the ACLU. This is the link. If it does not work cut and paste URL into your browser: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17647810&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

You are sitting in the concourse of an airport, preparing for your flight, when out of the corner of your eye, you spot six Arab men praying loudly in Arabic. "Okay," you say to yourself, "that's a bit disquieting. But praying isn't terrorism." You glance at your watch. It's time to board the plane. Sure enough, there's the boarding announcement. Suddenly, you hear the six Arab men chanting loudly. "Allah! Allah! Allah!" "Okay," you say to yourself, "maybe they're still praying." You board the flight and take your seat. You notice that two of the Arab men sit at the...

Gee, this sounds almost too good to be true, What if the Muslims go ahead with their "threat"... and boycott US Airways, wouldn't it be then one of the most secured aitlines in the world? Yes I know not every Muslim is a terrorist and yes I also know that almost all terrorists are Muslims. No more problem with racial profiling.The Minneapolis Six Sabotage Airline SecurityFrontPage magazine.com, released from custody, the six Muslims denounced the action as discriminatory and called for a thorough investigation of the incident and a US Airways boycott. ... Ann Coulter: How can I make your...