Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac...
by nmrm on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:53PM
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The author's observation is that racial profiling is at the heart of why we have problems with police corruption.
The end of the article argues that racial profiling allows a majority of citizens to ignore problems with policing because abuses are highly concentrated on "other people". This makes police corruption "not my problem".
The problem isn't complacency with the abuses; the problem is that abuses are concentrated on minorities of the population so that the majority of voters/stakeholders don't have enough skin in the game to care.
The end of the article argues that racial profiling allows a majority of citizens to ignore problems with policing because abuses are highly concentrated on "other people". This makes police corruption "not my problem".
The problem isn't complacency with the abuses; the problem is that abuses are concentrated on minorities of the population so that the majority of voters/stakeholders don't have enough skin in the game to care.