It’s hurtful to blacks if the lookout bulletins are constantly describing black people, the reason being that saying a suspect is 5′ 7″, and black, puts too many blacks that fit that description in jeopardy (from evil cops.)
So, the solution isn’t to somehow lower black crime. It’s to sweep it under the carpet, and allow black perps to be one step closer to getting away.
Faculty at Cornell University have approved a resolution that would remove a suspect’s race from crime alerts, arguing that its inclusion encourages suspicion of Black people.
Passed last week, the Faculty Senate resolution removed race as an identifier and called out an alleged effect on Black people.
“[T]he knowledge that a crime may have been committed by a Black man does not make CRIME ALERT recipients any safer, but instead endangers Black people in the community, reinforcing the common phenomenon of violence against Black people on the grounds that they look like suspected criminals,” the resolution reads.
A background document added that Black men made up 75% of suspects whose race was identified since January 2019. Previous alerts, it said, were too vague in their descriptions.
One alert involved “an unknown black male approximately 5’7″ with an average build, dark skin, wearing all black clothing and a black mask,” according to the backgrounder.
“Considering that height estimations are untrustworthy, this could be almost any Black man,” it read. “This information is useless to protect the community from the perpetrator — unless one believes it is protective to mistrust or avoid all average black men, which would precisely constitute a racist prejudice.”
It added: “[T]he doubling of blackness — vaguely saying that a black male has dark skin, or superfluously reporting that a black male has black hair — argues to us that there is unexamined cultural work being done through these emails.”
“They feel jarringly ignorant of the drumbeat of anti-Black violence that we see every day,” the document said.
Can’t list a person’s race in their description!?!?!?!
How Mother Clucking stupid are these over educated derelicts?
Wouldn’t listing “white” in a persons description eliminate every 5′ 7″ black person with a medium build?
It’s not just race, it’s gender. How can anyone say it was a man or a woman if the perp doesn’t even know?
Perhaps they should just list secondary characteristics:
1) Saggy pants hanging below his ass
2) Shufflin gait
3) Ebonic speech & vernacular
4) Trail of baby-mommas
5) Gold teeth
6) Won’t obey orders
7) Doesn’t tip
8) Always late, blames CPT
9) Blames whitey no matter what
10) Ruins vehicles with 22″ rims
11) Can & does repeat N-word with impunity
It has become obvious, Justice has become over-rated.
They don’t seem to have much trouble using the ‘white-supremacist’ term.
Just say Dindo Nuffin.
For years in Seattle news stories would not include race if it was one particular race. While they thought it would help the sensitivity of their melanin enhanced brethren, all it succeeded in doing was having everyone assume that the suspect was black if his race was not mentioned.
..maybe they can call him “Dark White”…
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2017/04/fox8news-dark-white.jpg
The police blotter in my local rag used to put the names of the perps in the reports. Not anymore, for some reason. Now, I have to fill in Keyshawn, Hector, Shariqua and the occasional Kyle myself. And yes, the douche who runs the paper is a preening leftist.
In the unlikely event that the authors of this study were attacked by a white person, you can be 100% sure they would report that fact to the cops.
Nubian?
” …. unless one believes it is protective to mistrust or avoid all average black men …”
That’s actually not a bad idea, depending on what area you are in at any given time.
When my local newsrag doesn’t describe a suspect it tells you everything you need to know.
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It’s like that show “Cops”; complaints about blacks being “over-represented” on the show resulted not in better behavior from blacks, but cancellation of the show because white supremacy..
Could Jerry Springer be next?
…local news won’t tell us the race of a mugger, but they WILL tell us if the GUN is black or silver…
5’7″
Brown eyes.
Kinky black hair.
Wide flat nose.
Big lips.
Swarthy complexion.
Breath like a buffalo fart.
Unable to pronounce “four.”
Holds pistol flat and can’t shoot worth shit, usually performing some small ballet while shooting.
Screams imbecilities.
Not responsible for anything.
izlamo delenda est …
I remember homework and lessons during class where the assignment was to fill in the blank(s). Guess school taught us something after all
This seems like the right moment to add that there are only 258 shoplifting days ’till kwanzaa…
Amber alerts suck, too.
UNLESS I have a vehicle description and license plate, what am I SUPPOSED to do? Just shoot at EVERY car that comes down the street?!?! 🤨
Now, now, don’t want to be dissin some minority thug who just murdered a clerk and 2 innocent shoppers in a armed robbery at the local convenience store now do we.
And the stupid state of Washington’s legislature just made Juneteenth an officially state recognized paid holiday now, it’s up to Inslee to sign it which he will. Gimme a friggin break, it’s another politically correct bs holiday for minorities. June 19th was also my mom’s birthday which is another reason for me to hate it, pick some other day you dumbasses.
I haven’t seen this description banned: African American.
It refers to origin of immigration, it has nothing to do with color of skin.
Prove me wrong.