Heresy!

8 Replies to “Heresy!”

1. Let’s be frank:
   crime brings cash into the community.
   that is why some people, would rather that police not be so competent in stopping criminal acts.

2. Let’s face it, profiling is rampant.
   Everytime they feel like busting a pedophile priest, who do they go after? A Catholic.
   Every time they feel like busting a crooked politician, who do they go after? The (well, the politicians).
   Every time they feel like busting somebody who’s pissed off about their government, who do they go after? Kate at SDA.
   Okay, that hasn’t happened yet, but that’s only because I haven’t been able to get through to Officer McDougal.

3. It always makes me smile when someone notices the obvious, then trumpets this knowledge as “insight”. You know where else I see this behavior? Children… elementary school aged children.

4. Well, since I was in elementary school at one point I suppose I can safely comment.
   It’s refreshing to read something confirming the observations of a good number of people despite the fact that it is considered bad form to do so. Far too many are, with good reason, hesitant to speak out on this issue. Livelihoods have been lost for less.
   I have worked with two brothers who immigrated to Canada from Jamaica over 20 years ago and they are among the most upstanding and decent people I know. I would trust them with the lives of my children.
   That being said, the police have to deal with reality. That reality suggests that the odds of finding criminal activity among young black males is more likely than among elderly white ladies (for instance).
   Any statistical analysis – whether conscious or not – prompts the analyst to investigate anomolies. The fact that 16 out of 20 (80%) of Toronto’s most wanted are young black men is a statistical anomoly.
   Sometimes the truth is painful.

5. Have Toronto Star readers heads exploded yet?

6. Well maybe it’s because they have issues driving every time a car does something stupid in traffic I tell my wife they are new Canadians.
   Am I wrong?
   Almost never!
   If I have had 5 generations of people driving in my family maybe they taught me to do a good job while if you come here from a country where you never had a car, we should expect their to be issues!
   Kind of like people complaining there are too many natives in jail when the government says they are 12 TIMES as likely to commit a crime as the rest of Regina/Saskatoon.
   http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/gs/soci_e.html
   and we must trust the government.
   Urban crime rates for Aboriginal people are 4 � times higher than the non-Aboriginal rate in Calgary and 12 times the non-Aboriginal rates in Regina and Saskatoon.
   Should they be 1/12th as likely to do time for committing a crime as say Kate?
   I say more likely to do time to get them to smarten up.

7. Kate:
   Psst… guess what? Here in the UK. Gun crime. Drugs. Gangs. Young black men – mostly Jamaican.

8. In case anyone missed the intent of my comment, I was referring the the author of the linked article being child-like…
   It is both amusing and disturbing to me that so many people would trade their safety for some illusion of “political correctness” by denying the neccessity of racial profiling.