News (Media Awareness Project) - US FL: 2 LTEs: Racial Profiling Makes Sense |
| Title: | US FL: 2 LTEs: Racial Profiling Makes Sense |
| Published On: | 2001-01-05 |
| Source: | St. Petersburg Times (FL) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-02 07:06:11 |
TARGETING OF CERTAIN SUSPECTS MAKES SENSE
Re: Stop racial profiling, editorial, Dec. 23.
Before we talk about racial profiling, we should define it so that the left
doesn't throw it around in defense of their beloved minorities whenever it
pleases them.
Racial profiling like racism means persecution solely on the basis of
racial hatred. How does this fit the so-called racial profiling along the
New Jersey Turnpike? As I have read in the Times, blacks are more often the
sellers of narcotics and whites are more often the users. Sellers have to
transport their wares from thither and yon to where it is needed. It makes
perfect sense, then, for police to stop, not all blacks as the Times
editorial failed to point out, but some black types and others the police
have come to recognize as probably transporting narcotics.
To further show how corrupt this editorial's thinking is, it claimed a
random search would also turn up "some" narcotic carriers. Beware of weasel
words. Of course it would turn up some. However, it would turn up very few,
whereas targeting suspects turned up 30 percent.
The police know something else the Times also failed to mention: that
narcotic traffickers send out cars devoid of drugs that they know will be
targeted in order to lessen the chance of traffickers being caught.
A 30 percent arrest rate is well worth the effort. Not to the Times, for
whom coddling minorities is more important than enforcing the law.
Francis J. Sullivan, St. Petersburg
IF THE PROFILE FITS
Re: Glaring abuse against minorities, letter, Dec. 29.
My son has traveled to the Caribbean many times over many years. It has
become a standing joke about how every time he returns to the Miami airport
he is singled out to get in the "search" line. He was told one time that he
simply met the profile.
My son is a 6-foot, blond, blue-eyed white male with a neatly trimmed beard.
All I can say is if there are profiles that may be helpful to stop drug
carriers, etc., then no matter what color their skin is, if it helps put
drugs off the streets, then so be it.
Judy Oliver, Largo
Re: Stop racial profiling, editorial, Dec. 23.
Before we talk about racial profiling, we should define it so that the left
doesn't throw it around in defense of their beloved minorities whenever it
pleases them.
Racial profiling like racism means persecution solely on the basis of
racial hatred. How does this fit the so-called racial profiling along the
New Jersey Turnpike? As I have read in the Times, blacks are more often the
sellers of narcotics and whites are more often the users. Sellers have to
transport their wares from thither and yon to where it is needed. It makes
perfect sense, then, for police to stop, not all blacks as the Times
editorial failed to point out, but some black types and others the police
have come to recognize as probably transporting narcotics.
To further show how corrupt this editorial's thinking is, it claimed a
random search would also turn up "some" narcotic carriers. Beware of weasel
words. Of course it would turn up some. However, it would turn up very few,
whereas targeting suspects turned up 30 percent.
The police know something else the Times also failed to mention: that
narcotic traffickers send out cars devoid of drugs that they know will be
targeted in order to lessen the chance of traffickers being caught.
A 30 percent arrest rate is well worth the effort. Not to the Times, for
whom coddling minorities is more important than enforcing the law.
Francis J. Sullivan, St. Petersburg
IF THE PROFILE FITS
Re: Glaring abuse against minorities, letter, Dec. 29.
My son has traveled to the Caribbean many times over many years. It has
become a standing joke about how every time he returns to the Miami airport
he is singled out to get in the "search" line. He was told one time that he
simply met the profile.
My son is a 6-foot, blond, blue-eyed white male with a neatly trimmed beard.
All I can say is if there are profiles that may be helpful to stop drug
carriers, etc., then no matter what color their skin is, if it helps put
drugs off the streets, then so be it.
Judy Oliver, Largo
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