Posted on 09/10/2016 5:17:58 PM PDT by blueyon
Police officers at Brown University are no longer including the race of criminal suspects when announcing crimes, after an outcry from Brown students who said the practice stigmatized certain groups.
The policy was first implemented a year ago, but was only publicized Wednesday by The Brown Daily Herald. Including a suspect’s race is often harmful because “vague descriptions can reinforce stereotypes,” causing hostility towards some community members, according to police chief Mark Porter.
To solve the problem, Brown police are making the descriptions even vaguer, including only the suspect’s age, sex, build, and general appearance (sans skin color).
The shift fulfills a demand from some Brown students who called for it while the school was hammering out its $165 million “Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion” action plan.
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Sexist Pigs!
Ageist Pigs!
Vertically-challenged-ophobiac Pigs!
(did I leave out any potentially offended groupS?)
Nope...I was driving a pick up truck...But if I get caught...Ill sue your ass for false somthing......and win!!!
What if it’s a racial crime or hate speech?
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
darn I should have scrolled down
'If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it.'
I’ve turned off every alert that says “a child has been abducted by an adult”
When they still said names but not race I was wrong a few times.
Then they at least said a car to look for , but I guess that’s racist so there’s nothing that helps in the alerts
Are the police allowed to know the race of the criminal?
Yeah, and next they’ll be calling it unfair to the affirmed the description he had two hands.
It’s all that two hand privilege stuff!
I’m pretty sure you can’t say “guy” either.
Even the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is skeptical of the change, saying the school may be putting people’s feelings ahead of safety considerations.
All politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.
Can they say kinky hair?
APB. Be on the lookout for suspect with wide set nostrils, a budge in crotch area, kinky hair, extreme sun tan. etc.
Now that is just plain stupid.
Race or color is a needed identifier in looking for suspects.
Do these ignorant people think anyone is not going to understand that suspect Shaniqua JXXXX is not a white person?
You could possibly do something about it.”<<
your orders are...Stay at the donut shop...I REPETE!...stay at the donut shop!!! .......the suspect may enter hungry and have money now.....
A big nostrilled kinky haired thick lipped suspect.
So how exactly are they to be ID? Next they won’t he able to ID them by gender?
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