Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People of color see racial profiling as a systematic problem that feeds on itself," says Rivera. "If police pull over more people of color because they fit a certain profile, then naturally they will tend to arrest more people of color for whatever infractions they uncover." The results of the arrests can then be used unfairly to justify the practice. Critics say this is a circular standard, and that it can be applied against any group of people police wish to target. Moreover, says Rivera, leading critics who have seen the criteria set forth in the profiles report that...
...generation ago were fighting for causes we can barely understand now. They lived not in the apathetic environment of today's college campuses but in a political climate dominated by the shadow of a war that ended before we were born. They subscribed to political philosophies we now tend to dismiss as anachronistic, or as mere curiosities...
...then, people do tend to act funny when the sun comes out again after a drab winter...
Fantini concurs with School Committee supporters like Malenfant on one point, though: that meetings, held twice a month, tend to get bogged down in trivialities and minutia...
Tricky things, historical analogies. They tend to cut several ways. But they also help clarify thought, if only by showing up the differences between then and now. Let's try five for size...