Does More Policing Lead to More Racial Profiling?
with Peter Moskos
Racial profiling has been at the center of criminal justice debates for decades now. It’s often derided as the inevitable result of giving too many police officers too much discretion over who to stop and why. But in this clip, the sociologist Peter Moskos argues that there are effective ways to reduce (though probably not entirely eliminate) unjustified racial profiling while giving police what he thinks is much-needed latitude.
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And once again, racial profiling is presumed to mean whites profiling blacks. Can it be the other way around? Yes, it can. And what about Hispanics and Asians? Do they not exist? Why are they never included in the consideration, one way or the other?
Racism won't begin to end until the questions and the questioners stop being racist.
With the rate of black crime, it sounds inevitable.
It's certainly the low hanging fruit.