Posted on 02/25/2015 4:16:23 PM PST by PROCON
Facing backlash for allegedly stigmatizing minorities particularly black men the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities announced on Tuesday that it will no longer include racial descriptors in crime alerts issued to students and faculty.
This change supports our public safety goals while recognizing the harm that the use of race in crime alerts causes for some members of our community, the university, which has nearly 50,000 students and is located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, said in a statement.
Moving forward, the University will use descriptions only when there is sufficient detail that would reasonably help identify specific individual suspects or groups of suspects [e.g., some combination of gender, race, clothing, height, body type, build, accent, tattoos, hair color, facial hair], the university stated.
The change came about after an 18-month long campuswide conversation in which members of the schools community raised concerns about the use of racial descriptors as part of Crime Alerts.
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can they say he is wearing a ‘hoodie’??? : )
Now, ‘Bleeding Heart Liberals’ will have a better chance to demonstrate their exsanguination skills.
” it was a bipedal homo sapien who was dressed like the lead character in that one movie”
LOL.
gotta laugh or you’ll cry .
“higher ed” my ass.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
Basically they're saying "We don't need to tell you the suspect's race, but you can probably guess".
the world needs more lerts.
BE A LERT
But aren’t they marginalizing Crimino-Americans by issuing *any* alerts?
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