Posted on 02/25/2015 4:16:23 PM PST by PROCON
Facing backlash for allegedly stigmatizing minorities particularly black men the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities announced on Tuesday that it will no longer include racial descriptors in crime alerts issued to students and faculty.
This change supports our public safety goals while recognizing the harm that the use of race in crime alerts causes for some members of our community, the university, which has nearly 50,000 students and is located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, said in a statement.
Moving forward, the University will use descriptions only when there is sufficient detail that would reasonably help identify specific individual suspects or groups of suspects [e.g., some combination of gender, race, clothing, height, body type, build, accent, tattoos, hair color, facial hair], the university stated.
The change came about after an 18-month long campuswide conversation in which members of the schools community raised concerns about the use of racial descriptors as part of Crime Alerts.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Officer: Was it animal, vegetable, or mineral?
Stigma? You’re darn right theres a stigma associated with these crime reports. For decades I’ve been reading crime reports from the local throwaway journal that shows up on my driveway every week to major newspapers to the undisputed source of crime reports, the FBI’s “Uniform Crime Report” data and I am ashamed, deeply disturbed even, by the gross underrepresentation of my race, of WHITE people in crime reports all over the country. White people simply aren’t doing their fair share of crimes. Get with it, white people, there’s looting, and shooting and raping and rioting to be done and it’s being done without our help.
F’rinstance: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-broward-sexual-assault-20150223-story.html
You NEVER see reports of white people doing this kind of crime. It’s a CONSPIRACY I tell you.
[the preceding is not meant for the irony or satirically-impaired].
They have a problem with the truth?
Tsk, tsk, you and your rhetorical questions...
All leftists hate the Truth.
He looka lika man.....
Better watch that. He (she, ???) might be lgbtggqqfagqwerty.
Minnesota appears to have open arms for all of Obama’s incoming muslims. I say we let them have all of them and then give Minnesota to Canada.
Sorry to offend any of our good Minnesota FReepers but that is a bizarre state. Probably a massive brain freeze from all the cold.
Only fair to give the perp a head start before they loose the hounds of justice.
*blink*
head —> desk
God forbid that we should stigmatize a criminal/sarc off
“He looka like a man!” - Mrs. Swan
To follow their logic, no mention of gender should be allowed as well.
And, since any detail description may accidentally give someone a clue as to the race and or gender, no specific detail should be given.
Attention, it has been brought to our attention that something bad has happened to someone by someone else.
Please be on alert for this person, that is all.
I just want to see the eruptions when it is discovered that this will make stopping sexual assault on campus exponentially harder - and when it is discovered that this policy will directly lead to a rise in the number of sexual assaults on campus. Now that’s gonna be fun to watch.
LOL—well played.
“He looka lika man.....”
He justa couldn’ta jumpa.
I think we can assume no description of prep means black male. Anyone else will be identified.
Dumb.
Darwin.
Minnesota
There really isn’t a good reason to keep it around.
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