Barry Artiste Op/Ed
Racial Profiling, a cops worst nightmare in fighting crime. Racial Profiling, a criminal of colour best pal. Racial Profiling, a defence lawyers best defence in getting his client off the hook.
Political correctness seems to now rival Vangroovy, when an officer has to think twice before stopping a suspect. In this case a young black teen driving a Mercedes. Certainly a teen of any colour driving an expensive car would raise eyebrows of any Police officer looking to take a bite out of crime. But the Politically Correct Diverse Groups would prefer to let criminals walk and take a bite out of Law Enforcement.
My boy, who is as lily white as you can get, has been stopped by the RCMP many times driving my new Cadillac Escalade, granted he gets upset, as for me, that is the society we live in.
In my time in basic training, we were always told, when fishing, you won’t get all the fish, but you will get a few.
A teen driving a late model luxury car is always going to be bait for any officer on a fishing expedition.
Past criminals always kept a low profile, today a criminal wants to flaunt his success, we see it on the streets, videos and movies. I put it this way, it is not racial profiling when the above are shown constantly, it is a clue, a clue most officer with any sense of logic must follow. An inconvienince for the law abiding citizen, of course, but if one is serious about stopping crime, perhaps a inconvienince we should learn to live by in this day and age, thanks to a revolving door justice system which practises Catch and Release Justice.
A report calls on the Ottawa Police Service to acknowledge the practice of racial profiling, but the force’s director who oversees diversity programs says there is “absolutely and categorically” no internal policy that promotes racial profiling.
While the report author applauds the police force for trying to bridge the gap between minority communities, he believes the force needs to “take more of a leadership role” in addressing perceived racial profiling.
“I definitely want to see the Ottawa Police Service go from just talking to be more vigorous in their effort,” Sulaimon Giwa said.
Source: ottawasun.com
