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...Lambs in which Special Agent Crawford asks for a description of the man the two are after? Her first answer is that the killer is "a white male." It just so happens that nearly all American serial killers have been white men. It just so happens that blacks commit a disproportionate percentage of rapes and (nonserial) murders in the U.S. But when should acting on such information become a crime? When does the useful practice of criminal profiling become the inglorious practice of racial profiling...
...conservatives are mounting a campaign to defeat the legislation. In the City Journal, based in New York City, Heather Mac Donald, senior fellow of a right-leaning think tank called the Manhattan Institute, argues that disproportionate traffic stops may be rational because there is "some evidence" that minorities commit more traffic violations per capita...
Perhaps police are more likely to search minorities because they commit a disproportionate number of crimes. William Tucker makes this point in an article in the conservative Weekly Standard. According to the latest federal figures, blacks are 12% of the U.S. population but account for 27% of all sexual-assault convictions, 66% of all robbery convictions and 38% of all fraud and embezzlement convictions. Yet it seems unlikely that a traffic officer who searches a black motorist on the shoulder of a highway believes he is stopping a robbery, rape or embezzlement...
...involvement in crime. If you're trying to measure racism, isn't it better to compare police stops to actual black involvement in crime than to the mere representation of blacks in the population? The elephant in the living room--and the tragedy in black America--is that we commit crimes vastly out of proportion to our numbers in society...
...darkness that allowed the gunman to commit his crime unobserved proved Lees' savior. She was able to lie undiscovered in the thorny scrub as the man searched for her with a torch and a dog. Now the hunter is the hunted: more than 100 police, of a Northern Territory force of fewer than 1,000, are searching for the gunman, but the area they must cover?a million sq. km?is daunting. "We're looking for a needle in a haystack," says Commander Fields, "and you don't get a haystack much bigger than the Northern Territory...