>>Not a good test. There are many American Indians who
live in and were born in Arizona who don’t speak English
at all.<<
I agree. I don’t consider it a test, but just a strong clue. Fred Reed, when riding with cops in the Chicago Ghetto mentioned that when you saw white boys in a car it usually meant they were there to buy drugs. It was not a test, but it was a strong clue. In that case, it was a VERY strong clue.
In this case, if someone is Hispanic (and most illegal Mexicans are just “southern” American Indians) and can’t speak English during a routine traffic stop, it would simply be more prudent for a reasonable police officer to use that as one of the clues to determine if examining the license as a forgery, etc. May be in order.
If someone is black or white or Asian it would probably be less of an issue. Racial and sexual profiling is arguably THE most useful weapon at the disposal of our police for effectively doing their job. I’d like to see the TSA embrace it.
Cop sees the aforementioned kid on the drivers side of a truck, parked on a street. Black kid is sitting on the passenger side next to him. Cop stops, starts giving them both the fifth degree: "What are you doing here? Not buying drugs, are you? Etc."
Fred was sympathetic....the kid's story was checking out completely. They were good friends, see. Just talking after work, etc etc. Fred couldn't understand why the hard time.
Cop says "Well, if you're good pals, (nods at one)...what's your friend's name?"
Kid didn't have an answer. Fred started to get suspicious, too. Long story short, it turned out that it was drugs, as the cop suspected.
'Twas an eye-opening article for me. Spun "Racial Profiling" 180 degrees around in my head, because if it had two black kids in the truck, the cop wouldn't have given them a second glance.