Friday 2 September 2005

Loot vs. Found.

I found this very strange. Apparently a news organisation posted two pictures from NO. One showed a black man and referred to looting whilst the other showed a white man and spoke of his finding goods. The racial Gestapo have forced the removal of these photographs. Now, I enjoy only average intelligence but it could be that this is accurate reporting. Say the black guy went into a store and filled his black sack whilst the white guy found his black sack abandoned somewhere. Looted and found would then be quite appropriate. But no; the thin skinned p.c. crowd will always look for an interpretation that suits their agenda. On further digging, seems the two photographs came from different agencies and were captioned by two different people. Hardly a planned discrimination.
Oh - and here is another example where the discrimination ghost-busters got on the wrong foot. I quote to save you having to click a url

"New Study Undercuts Claim of "DWB" (JW Note DWB = Driving while black. Not an offence but used to allege a state of mind of the police officer)
From the DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics comes
a new study on traffic stops by police which concludes:"The likelihood of being stopped by police in 2002 did not differ significantly between white (8.7%), black (9.1%), and Hispanic (8.6%) drivers."Also of note: "In 2002 the vast majority of the 45.3 million persons who had a contact with police felt the officer(s) acted properly(90.1%)."Those are the seminal finding of the study. What caught some media coverage was the study's finding that "Black (10.2%) and Hispanic (11.4%) motorists stopped by police were more likely than whites (3.5%) to be physically searched or have their vehicle searched."But the survey's authors concede that:
while the survey data can reveal these racial disparities, they cannot answer the question of whether the driver's race, rather than the driver's conduct or other specific circumstances surrounding the stop, was the reason for the search. The survey asked few questions about circumstances or driver conduct. For example, having drugs in plain view of police is a circumstance that would normally warrant a legal search of the vehicle. But since the survey did not ask drivers whether any drugs within plain view were in the vehicle, the analysis is necessarily limited.Thus it seems that race is not really a factor in whether a vehicle gets pulled over by police. This is further supported by the very high percentage of people reporting that the police acted properly in stopping the vehicle. I'm sure this will be disappointing news for some who constantly suggest that racial bias is pervasive in American policing"

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