Showing posts with label profiling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label profiling. Show all posts

Political Correctness More Deadly Than ISIS

by Brian Joondeph.     Which is a bigger threat to America? Terrorists or political correctness? Seems like an easy answer. PC is just an idea, whereas terrorists shoot people and blow things up. But which is easier to stop or contain? I contend that if the PC movement went away, America would have a much easier time fighting terrorism. Meaning     ... MORE

Prison Sentences Based On Crimes Not Yet Committed

by Barry-Jester, Casselman and Goldstein.   Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the future. Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country to base criminal sentences not only on  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Should Profiling Be Banned?

Upon further review.        Last week, the Obama administration announced new curbs on racial profiling by federal law enforcement. Before deciding whether this is good or bad policy, we might try to develop a description/definition of racial profiling or any other kind of profiling. A good definition of profiling in general is the use of   ... MORE

Sharia Law Compatible With Constitution Says Rep. Waters

by Sara Noble.       Political nitwittery on parade. Maxine Waters is under the impression that Shariah Law can be implemented while our U.S. Constitution is in effect. Anyone who disagrees is an Islamophobe and a hater according to her. Last week, the Council of Pakistan Affairs and Islamic Society of Orange County welcomed Maxine Waters to a   ... MORE

Should White NFL Owners Shackle Black Language?

New rule targets black players.    The NFL is expected to consider a new rule that would see players receive a 15-yard penalty if they use the N-word on the field. Michael Wilbon, an opponent of the potential rule, used the word on live television Monday to make his point. Wilbon, co-host of ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption, argues that although it    ... MORE

Obama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013

By Ilya Shapiro.     One of Barack Obama’s chief accomplishments has been to return the Constitution to a central place in our public discourse. Unfortunately, the president fomented this upswing in civic interest not by talking up the constitutional aspects of his policy agenda, but by blatantly violating the strictures of our founding document.     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Profiling

Understanding probability is useful.   Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie "Casablanca," in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to "round up the usual suspects." Was Renault engaging in some sort of profiling? He may have been, but what is profiling? Let's look at it. We can think of    ... MORE

Obama Puts His Daddy Hat On, Again

by M. Catherine Evans.   Since when is it a president's place to advise people in their personal moral and spiritual journey? For five years, he's been preaching to white people on how they should act. Yesterday, President Obama  piped up once again on how the Trayvon Martin tragedy should move us all to be a little less racist. Predictably, he    ... MORE

Radley Balko: Bad Cops, Drug Dogs And Asset Forfeiture

Three ingredients that make for a toxic brew.    Last December, filmmaker Terrance Huff and his friend Jon Seaton were returning to Ohio after attending a "Star Trek" convention in St. Louis. As they passed through a small town in Illinois, a police officer, Michael Reichert, pulled Huff's red PT Cruiser over to the side of the road, allegedly for an unsafe    ... MORE

Tom Vellner: The TSA Needs To Be Put In Check

Security measures or offensive power trips?    What do you get when you mix racial profiling and sexual assault? The Transportation Security Administration, apparently. After more than 30 TSA agents claimed that coworkers were targeting Hispanics, blacks, and those of Middle Eastern descent during security checks at Logan International   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Why Racial Profiling Exists

Human beings do not have god-like insight. Right now, there isn't enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando, Fla., suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman's actions were not   ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: NYC, Prototype Of A Police State?

You have more to fear than fear itself. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.”—Michael Bloomberg, Mayor  ... MORE

Larry Gabriel: How The Drug War Rolls Back Civil Rights

Identifying Jim Crow under another name.    State Rep. Rick Olson (R-Saline) made an amazing blog post last month. He had recently attended a luncheon hosted by the Legislative Black Caucus to hear Michelle Alexander, a lawyer and author who teaches at Ohio State University. Olson's post was titled "Medical Marijuana Law Needs Clarification, But ... MORE