[Wordsmith]

"C'mon, Bill, you know that if black people are stopped disproportionally, then black people will be caught committing crime disproportionally."

Wow, that's an interesting argument I haven't specifically come across before. Turns it into a chicken-or-the-egg question. Are more blacks stopped because proportionately blacks commit more crime, or are more blacks caught for crime because more blacks are stopped?

[ellery]

Yeah, I hadn't heard it either, before the O'Reilly interview. But as soon as I heard it, I thought it made a lot of sense. Of course, the argument doesn't apply to our war on terror...:-)