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Why The Sacramento Bee will no longer publish police ‘mugshots,’ with limited exceptions
Sacramento Bee ^ | July 9 2020 | Ryan Lillis

Posted on 07/09/2020 5:34:25 PM PDT by rintintin

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article244097082.html#storylink=cpy

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1 posted on 07/09/2020 5:34:25 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

I love the Sacramento Bee because I always have to check carefully whether their articles are from competitor https://babylonbee.com/ .


2 posted on 07/09/2020 5:39:53 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: rintintin

For crime stories, the Bee mentions race ifbperp is Latino, Asian, white, middle eastern, but says nothing if perp is black. Seems racist to me..


3 posted on 07/09/2020 5:40:08 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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They won’t be mentioning race too often then :-)


4 posted on 07/09/2020 5:40:53 PM PDT by dp0622 (TRUMP!)
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To: rintintin

Only white peoples’ mug shots from now on.


5 posted on 07/09/2020 5:41:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: rintintin

Because in the real world where people actually live, too many of the criminals are black or minority, according to the papers’ biased viewpoint.


6 posted on 07/09/2020 5:42:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rintintin

Papers are looking for ways to be less useful and informative to their readers.

Lo and behold they found another way.


7 posted on 07/09/2020 5:43:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

One of the big papers in NJ was doing this years ago (when people read newspapers), and it had the opposite effect - if there was no picture, readers assumed the perp was black.


8 posted on 07/09/2020 5:44:05 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: rintintin

Otice how the paper isnt concerned at all that a disproportionate amount of criminals are minorities?

You really have to wonder why that doesnt bother them.

Eveything in the world bothers these parent basement dwelling snowflakes.

It bothers them that nuns dont want to offer insurance that provides for abortion services, yet the fact more minorities commit crimes than whites, that doesnt trigger them, just having to report it triggers them.

I know why, its rhetorical.


9 posted on 07/09/2020 5:46:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rintintin
Publishing these photographs and videos disproportionately harms people of color and those with mental illness, while also perpetuating stereotypes about who commits crime in our community.

Translation: Mugshots give an accurate snapshot of who is committing crimes.

10 posted on 07/09/2020 5:48:16 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: rintintin

Only if they’re white, right?


11 posted on 07/09/2020 5:50:34 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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It is not a stereotype if it is a truthful representation of the population, What word replaces “looting? Perhaps “unwanted donation of property” would work.
12 posted on 07/09/2020 5:50:35 PM PDT by GOWM (grumpy old white man)
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So, public records are being kept secret? Is that legal?


13 posted on 07/09/2020 5:50:56 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: rintintin

The Sac. Bee is a newspaper that has just declared it will withhold news from its readers. Everyone knows that the mugshots are predominately “people of color”. This might lead the reader to conclude that most criminals are “people of color”. We can’t have that, so we just won’t show mugshots.

This will force the reader have to read his ‘news’paper like a citizen of the Soviet Union—filling in the left-out bits on his own. At some point, they will have to also stop printing the names of arrestees for the same reason. Instead of Ta’Shawn Wilson, it will read, “Sacramento police arrested one T. Wilson”. But like the USSR, no one will be fooled and the Bee will wonder why it’s losing readers.


14 posted on 07/09/2020 5:53:37 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

It is called confirmation biased... emotional decision makers subconsciously seek out results that confirm their world view rather than evaluate the data and make decisions from there:

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=emotional+decision+makers+and+confirmation+biased&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8


15 posted on 07/09/2020 5:54:39 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: rintintin

Well Sacromento Bee won{t have to wait long since 95 percent of BLM is made up of poor white fat girls with no to low self’esteem.


16 posted on 07/09/2020 5:55:32 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Then you will know by lack of mention of race what the race is.


17 posted on 07/09/2020 5:56:48 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: rintintin

So now people can just disappear by the police state?

They are not thinking this one through.

While a mug shot may not be the most pleasant thing, at least it is a record for friends and family to verify you are in custody.


18 posted on 07/09/2020 5:56:57 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: kearnyirish2; All

Yes that’s pretty much the default opinion now; also when they call them “teens” or “youths” you don’t, as we say, have to look.


19 posted on 07/09/2020 6:02:35 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: yesthatjallen

13 do 50


20 posted on 07/09/2020 6:02:41 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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