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On Sat, 01 May 2010 13:13:57 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> No, but the notion that you can pick someone up because they *look*
>> like an illegal immigrant (which BTW violates the 4th amendment right
>> to protection against unreasonable search/seizure) *is* patently
>> racist.
>
> Why does it have to be racism?
Because it relies on racial profiling, and not on what has been done.
> Imagine that a woman is raped, and the police is immediately called,
> and they suspect that the rapist is still in the vicinity. The police
> ought to start questioning suspects they find. Male suspects.
Different circumstances.
> One could argue that only having males as suspects is discrimination,
> that suspects should be equally male and female. But that someone would
> be a complete idiot. It's 99.999% probable that the rapist was a male,
> rather than a woman who raped a woman and was nevertheless mistaken for
> a man (that has probably never happened in the history of mankind).
> Hence it makes sense for the police to only suspect males and leave
> females off the hook. If the police was stupid enough to start detaining
> females for suspicion of raping a woman, they would be wasting valuable
> resources which would be better used in searching for the actual rapist.
> After all, law enforcement has only very limited resources to solve
> crimes.
>
> Likewise with illegal immigration: The vast majority of illegal
> immigrants
> don't look like locals.
Except that in Arizona, the vast majority of immigrants (legal and not)
are of hispanic descent. Let's see how many Canadian immigrants get
stopped there because "they don't look like they belong".
> Hence it only makes sense to prioritize the
> scarce resources law enforcement has and concentrate on people who don't
> look like locals. This is not racism. This is practicality. Questioning
> people equally is only going to waste resources, which wastes taxpayers'
> money, and causes less crimes to be stopped.
No, this law *is* a waste of taxpayer money, in fact, several police
departments in Arizona have said that this takes resources away from
*real* crime.
Jim
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