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Can you say racial profiling ?
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Yes I can. Can you say jumping to conclusions?
When the radar shows somebody speeding, I doubt it also tells you their ethnic background. When you see a car cross the center line, I doubt the car has a sign on it saying the driver is Hispanic. I also doubt the car flashes in bold letters the same thing when not using it's turn signals.
Can you say uneducated? If someone can't speak English, I doubt they read it real well. I also doubt they are very well versed in driving. It seems they are well versed in NOT having a license or insurance.............
You want to find the hard facts, then you need to know how many people are pulled over and what their race is. Then you compare that to how many are arrested and how many are just cited, and how many are just warned. If, say, you pull over 20 people and 10 of them are arrested, then that is 50%. If 7 of them are Hispanic, and the other 3 are white, YOU would conclude that it is profiling, or whatever, because of 7 to 3. Now, if of the 20 people 7 of them were Hispanic, that is less than half. It just happens that the 7 Hispanics commited arrestable offenses. So it is not profiling now is it?