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Macy's Agrees to Enforce Policy Against Racial Profiling in Shoplifting
AP ^ | 1/14/2005 | Michael Gormley

Posted on 01/14/2005 5:48:12 PM PST by NJ Neocon

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A division of the retailer Macy's has agreed to pay $600,000 and make sure its security officers adhere to store policy which prohibits using racial or ethnic profiling in detaining suspected shoplifters.

The agreement between Macy's East Inc. and state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was announced Friday and covers Macy's stores in New York State

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: ignorereality; ignorethetruth; profiling
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1 posted on 01/14/2005 5:48:12 PM PST by NJ Neocon
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To: NJ Neocon

But they will enforce their racial profiling in hiring.


2 posted on 01/14/2005 5:51:21 PM PST by Swanks
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To: NJ Neocon
Can someone tell me why "racial profiling" is such a big deal but no one ever mentions sexual profiling? This would be where someone tends to single out one sex for traffic tickets, or assumes that because someone is of a particular sex, they are more prone to criminal activity.
3 posted on 01/14/2005 5:53:45 PM PST by Teslas Pigeon
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To: Swanks
But they will enforce their racial profiling in hiring.

Why do you say that? Recent court cases? What?

LVM

4 posted on 01/14/2005 5:54:24 PM PST by LasVegasMac (Political head butting is nothing compared to tectonic plate head butting.)
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Eliot Spitzer

One socialist crook helping out his own.

5 posted on 01/14/2005 5:55:11 PM PST by Rome2000 (Democrats are perverted socialist crooks)
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To: NJ Neocon

Yet another boost for shopping over the internet.


6 posted on 01/14/2005 5:55:56 PM PST by Moonman62 (Republican - The political party for the living.)
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To: NJ Neocon

store policy which prohibits using racial or ethnic profiling in detaining suspected shoplifters.

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7 posted on 01/14/2005 5:56:13 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: NJ Neocon
In other words, they're going to start racial profiling to make sure they don't breach their quotas.
8 posted on 01/14/2005 5:58:56 PM PST by ScottFromSpokane
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To: ScottFromSpokane
On the upside, they will now follow white people and watch them not steal.
9 posted on 01/14/2005 6:02:22 PM PST by Nitro
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To: NJ Neocon

Well, now ya jus' KNOW what happens next...
Same thing that is happening 'round here..
Our lovely Prosecuting attorney will not prosecute a shoplifter over 55. Claims no jury would convict them. Even when caught on tape.
The storeowners might just as well hang a sign SENIOR CITIZENS HELP YOURSELVES.


10 posted on 01/14/2005 6:02:54 PM PST by MIgramma (FEAR= False Evidence Alleged Real)
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To: Rome2000
Eliot Spitzer

One socialist crook helping out his own.

And the next Governor of New York.

11 posted on 01/14/2005 6:04:21 PM PST by j_tull (There are only two types of ships... Submarines and targets.)
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To: ScottFromSpokane

Oh my God! I never thought of it that way!


12 posted on 01/14/2005 6:06:19 PM PST by NJ Neocon (Democracy is tyranny of the masses. It is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner)
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To: NJ Neocon
Any music lover notice how the classical CDs are almost NEVER locked up in used CD stores? I once found a rare, out of print, Michael Rabin (renowned, legendary violist) box set which sells for $800+ on eBay for $25 (mint condition) at a used record store. While it wasn't in the bargain bin, it was easily accessible to anyone. Meanwhile, retailers are busy putting their used $3 Britney Spears CDs behind locked glass.
13 posted on 01/14/2005 6:09:42 PM PST by jdm (Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
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To: NJ Neocon
"The payment is designed to defray the state's costs of examining complaints from black and Hispanic customers who said they were more often detained and questioned, searched and handcuffed than white customers."

This just doesn't make any kind of sense at all! Macy's hasn't done anything wrong, but has paid to defray the state's cost of examining complaints??? ..and from black and hispanic customers who said they were more often detained, questioned, searched and handcuffed than white customers??

How do they know they were detained, questioned, searched and handcuffed more often than white customers?

Macy's should tell the state if they need costs for idiocy to be defrayed then they better start charging an idiot tax to pay for it.

14 posted on 01/14/2005 6:09:47 PM PST by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: j_tull
the next Governor of New York

Probably

They deserve each other.

15 posted on 01/14/2005 6:10:03 PM PST by Rome2000 (Democrats are perverted socialist crooks)
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To: NJ Neocon
Lemme get this straight. In the off chance that blacks and hispanics commit more shoplifting offenses per thousand than caucasian and orientals, Macy's must redress the balance. Is it required to do so by letting some shoplifters go in the first category? Or, should it balance the races by arresting some none shoplifters in the second category?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Congressman Billybob

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16 posted on 01/14/2005 6:26:22 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.)
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To: GeekDejure

The fix for this "racial profiling" nonsense is to use "behavior profiling".
It would work like this...
Store personnel see a person (any race) secreting unpaid for merchandise into their clothing or other places while furtively glancing about etc., giving store personnel the "impression" a theft is taking place...OR acting in such a manner deemed to be inconsistent with SHOPPING!
The person could then be detained and questioned.
Behavioral profiling is colorblind...No ethnic group could claim they're being singled out.


17 posted on 01/14/2005 6:35:16 PM PST by yer gonna put yer eye out (Gettin' a PhD at FR...(PrettyHard on Democrats))
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To: 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.


18 posted on 01/14/2005 6:42:58 PM PST by avitot
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To: yer gonna put yer eye out
That's a fine idea until you put it in practice. What happens if the majority of the persons engaged the shoplifting behavior are from one or two racial groups? The apprehension statistics would support the notion that you were preferentially targeting those groups. It's a no win situation. Those groups expect a license to steal. Anyone who attempts to stop the behavior is going to be accused of racial profiling.
19 posted on 01/14/2005 6:45:58 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: NJ Neocon

Merry Winter Solstice Festival, Macys!


20 posted on 01/14/2005 6:56:14 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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