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Brown University cops will no longer report race of wanted suspects
BPR BizPac Review ^ | 09/09/16 | By Blake Neff

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brownu; crime; education; pc; police; race; trump
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To: LydiaLong

If you see something, say something, and be kicked off of campus for being all judgey.


81 posted on 09/10/2016 6:53:29 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: headstamp 2
“The suspect is described as extremely un-good”

Suspect? Hasn't that been replaced by "person of interest"? Can't say "suspect" anymore.

82 posted on 09/10/2016 7:02:45 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
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To: blueyon

We are living in the Age of Insanity.


83 posted on 09/10/2016 7:05:30 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: blueyon

Young black men: 3% of the population. 50% of the murder.


84 posted on 09/10/2016 7:17:15 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: blueyon

Then don’t report the sex of the rapists either, it impugns all men “as potential rapists”, a hate meme from the radical leftist feminazi brigade.


85 posted on 09/10/2016 7:19:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: blueyon

This will help reduce college rapes, how?


86 posted on 09/10/2016 7:20:16 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Hillary's nominatin = 60's Violence. "Constant conflict is actually often good politics"-Clinton)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Can you tell me if he had a blackjack?


87 posted on 09/10/2016 7:20:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: fhayek

Well we KNOW to be suspicious of any SUV, they are all potential killers.


88 posted on 09/10/2016 7:21:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Sex”? Don’t they mean Gender Identity?


89 posted on 09/10/2016 7:27:23 PM PDT by MGG
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To: blueyon

One unintended consequence of affirmative action was that all black students are seen as getting in because of their skin even if some of them are actual scholars.

This will have the same kind of effect. All suspects will now be considered black even if some of them are actually white.


90 posted on 09/10/2016 7:31:52 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Hodar

Police chief Mark Porter is correct, “vague descriptions can reinforce stereotypes,” and “the practice stigmatized certain groups.” I wonder who these certain groups could be. Apparently they are not worried about stigmatizing age groups, or sex, or build. As a male I feel stigmatized. I must now go to my safe space.


91 posted on 09/10/2016 7:37:32 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: blueyon

Okay, don’t mention their sex, gender, whatever’s, height, weight,clothing, or length of bar!.......if you’re gonna be stupid,might as well be consistently stupid!...


92 posted on 09/10/2016 7:40:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Hodar
if race description is off base, so is sex, so is body build...

if you're an obese rapist, and they call you fat, isn't that just so offensive?...and worse yet, to be called a "man".....the horrors...

93 posted on 09/10/2016 7:46:22 PM PDT by cherry
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To: All

As long as they want to make it difficult if not impossible to catch people... they might as well just turn it into a game....Every time they are hunting a suspect a policeman should go on live tv and radio and start the search with ....

“I spy, with my little eye” etc....


94 posted on 09/10/2016 7:50:30 PM PDT by uncle fenders
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To: blueyon

Of course they will need to check with the suspect to make sure they are using the proper pronouns.


95 posted on 09/10/2016 7:58:06 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: blueyon

How do they know which sex the person self identifies as?


96 posted on 09/10/2016 8:06:09 PM PDT by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: blueyon

Just disband the police department. That way no one is offended by accusations of criminal behavior.


97 posted on 09/10/2016 8:47:42 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: blueyon

98 posted on 09/10/2016 8:51:26 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: blueyon

Mark my words, next it will be only gender neutral descriptions. “The person, the human being, the living organism, etc...” Our education has become indoctrination.


99 posted on 09/10/2016 8:56:30 PM PDT by Rufus Shinra (Trump is the last best hope for our country. Independence vs. Globalism.)
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To: blueyon

Next, the perp’s gender, height, and age won’t be allowed either, as of course that TOO stigmatizes certain groups.

I guess they’ll still be allowed to report that the perp was probably a human and was dressed in clothing.


100 posted on 09/10/2016 9:12:58 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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