Posted on 03/01/2005 12:17:36 PM PST by JZelle
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Black drivers in Delaware pay higher speeding fines than white motorists, a newspaper investigation has found. The investigation by the Wilmington News Journal also found that some police forces ticket blacks in disproportionate numbers. Police agencies with inequities deny they engage in "racial profiling," but could not explain why disparities exist. Some black drivers, however, believe their skin color influenced the police officer. One is Andre Brown of New York, who said he was driving with the traffic flow when a Greenwood officer ticketed him for going 64 mph in a 35-mph zone in 2002.
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Blacks Drivers?
"A newspaper investigation" found this??? In other words, blacks are ticketed at exactly the same rate as whites.
The point of this is to intimidate police into not writing tickets to black people. Probably some black "activist" recieved a ticket and the "do you know who I am" did not work. So now we have the fishing for quotas.
Next they will required a consent decree to record all the races of those ticketed and then adopt a quota system of tickets based on race. Officers will have to attend speeder race sensitivity classes. Radar guns will be required to include a race of driver indicator.
Do blacks speed more?
"who said he was driving with the traffic flow when a Greenwood officer ticketed him for going 64 mph in a 35-mph zone in 2002."
Almost 30 mph over the speed limit and he says the only reason is because he's black. Right.
I think its safe to say this "investigation" was spurious
Just because a "disproportionate" number of violators are black does not provide evidence of racism.
Has the call gone out to the Reverend Jackson yet?
What a bunch of crap.
with the traffic flow when a Greenwood officer ticketed him for going 64 mph in a 35-mph zone in 2002
My Bull$#!+ / Moron meter just pegged at maximum level.
"Some black drivers, however, believe their skin color influenced the police officer. One is Andre Brown of New York, who said he was driving with the traffic flow when a Greenwood officer ticketed him for going 64 mph in a 35-mph zone in 2002."
What? He got a ticket for only going 30 mph over the speed limit? Damn racist cops.
Do the police make note of everyones color when they pull them over or what?
Hahaha. Then the headline should read "Black's Drivers".
< snip > " •The average ticket cost Asian drivers 15 percent more than white drivers." < /snip>
yawn
Another good one is when a driver is stopped for driver erratically and the officer smells alcohol, the driver always says he has only had two beers.
Doing twice the speed limit should have been a clue that he was going to be pulled over.
"I wasn't the only one speeding that day," said Mr. Brown, ...
At least he admits he was speeding, which would explain the speeding ticket.
So, how is this incident racist?
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