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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This is peak leftism and end-stage, terminal stupidity.
This enables crime.
Brown University? The name should be changed to a no-color name.
Barbra Streisand?
Just like most idiotic liberal ideas, this will have just the opposite effect that was intended. Most people, including black people, will assume that the perps are always black, which is probably not true.
Why microinvalidate the suspect by citing gender?
“Something may or may not have happened. A human may or may not have been involved”
If you say a suspect is male then you are horribly stigmatizing all males.... if you say a suspect is around 6 ft tall then you are horribly stigmatizing all ppl around 6 ft tall etc.
/sarcasm
either you give the most detailed description available for each suspect or else you are doing nothing useful to help protect the public from thugs and murderers.....
I was formulatin' somethin' like that when I read yours ....
Hear they're changing the name to "Halfway-Between-White-and-Black University".
Criminals are winning
Posting the sex would be a micro aggression.
Nope, BLM demanded they just shoot white people at random and hope they get the suspect that way.
Someone said that this PC nonsense is going to get people killed.
They are absolutely right and gutless chiefs better wake up to and tell the SJWs hell no.
So it's OK to describe the skin color of the police and students but not criminal suspects. That's just not fair.
Are you sure it was he? It might have been transgender. In which case who knows what it started out as.
non-identified colored sedan of non-identified make.
You said colored, dat be rasis.
And we continue down the path towards referring to everyone as “Carbon Based Entities.”
It covers a man who thinks of himself as a woman who wants to be a puppy. It covers a woman who ide tofies as a “pony.”
Carbon based entities all of you!
Been predicting this for several years.
It’s okay, we don’t need anyone to tell us what race the criminals are. We can safely guess.
“We can safely guess.”
Yup. I will just do what I’ve always done, i.e., assume they are Sons of Barack until told otherwise.
Politicized cops are cowards, who worry more about their paychecks and retirement funds than protecting people. Anyone who thinks these leftist badge-wearing wimps will confiscate people’s guns is crazy. For these so-called cops, it’s always about money and protect my fat ass before duty.
WTSHTF, they’ll be the first to run for the tall grass and hide.
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