Inquiring minds want to know.
Congressman Billybob
the most successful mafia prosecutors are italian. perhaps ethnic groups that are stereotyped as being shoplifters should change that perception at the source, and become the nations leading opponets of crime.
This legislation is designed not to "redress the imbalance"
of what they're incorrectly calling "profiling", but instead to inaugurate a hands-off policy toward black and latino customers. Unless a store security guy SEES an actual theft, I would guess he would hang back and not even approach the minority customers. They will instead go out of their way to question caucasians,(and Asians, probably) all out of proportion to the minorities in question, much in the same way they are still going overboard in questioning and examining 80 year old grannies with artificial hips in airports. The people behind this kind of legislation wind up being the FRIENDS and ENABLERS of criminals, whether it's another potential terrorist boarding a jet, or a necktie thief at Macy's. This does not bode well for the integrity of Eliot SPitzer, who is showing himself to belong to that John Edwards fraternity of ambulance-chasing trial lawyers. They are determind to see to it that they never run out of litigation opportunities. Still and all, the most lamentable, head-shaking detail is that Macy's coughed up all that dough for the purpose of "defraying costs of the investigation". It's as though we're in a British Court of Law, and it was Macy's that brought the frivolous and unprovable charge against the minority community. I AM SO GLAD I AM IN THE BUILDING TRADES, AND NOT PART OF THIS SICK WORLD OF LAWYERS.