It does not go far enough to be a scientific study. Nobody wants to delve into whether “minorities” are more likely to misbehave in traffic — especially if we’re counting in illegal aliens. That’s a question as radioactive as Chernobyl.
After all the years this subject has been discussed I have come to the conclusion that, in my opinion, we will never get rid of racial profiling 100%. It will be done by groups and individuals at a near sub-concious level in some cases. So it will always be with us to some degree, like it or not.
Some call it good police work.
What if blacks really do break traffic laws at higher rates than whites?
“A New Jersey study suggesting black drivers speed more than other drivers was released this week despite federal government concerns about its accuracy.
The study found African-American motorists are more likely than white drivers to exceed the 65 mph speed limit on the southern end of the New Jersey Turnpike.”
N.J. releases controversial racial speeding study
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/03/27/nj.speeding.study/index.html
Flawed conclusion. If you combine any 2 or 3 “minorities”, they are not a minority any more. Instant race baiting.
If you love irony, check this out:
POLITICS, IMPRISONMENT AND RACE
“An adult black man is seven times more likely to be found housed behind bars as is his white counterpart. Paradoxically, the largest disparities are found in political domains controlled by liberals — the leaders in the struggle for racial justice. By examining how criminal behavior is distributed within the races, the paradox is resolved showing it to be an unintended consequence of liberal benevolence and goodwill.”
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/prison.htm
"Study Finds Minorities 30% More Likely to Drive Without a License"
A reason right there to pull them over to begin with.
And the result of those searches, white vs non-white? I'm guessing the non-white searches were more productive.
My personal survey of driving habits supports these conclusions.
What shares me is the probable ‘fix’ that will inevitably be proposed: Start stopping more whites for little to no reason to raise the quota of whites arrested, and ignoring black scofflaws.
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I’d like to see the statistics on double parking, boom-box-mobiles, and parking in no parking zones. People who do these minor crimes will also be the same ones who run stop signs, speed and do other moving violations.
In Tampa, if you drive on Columbus Ave, the driving habits of people around you suddenly become very very interesting. You better keep your head on a swivel!
You see, this is a highly concentrated latin area called West Tampa. These people do not drive well. Believe it.
My wife and I both come from Tampa latin families. We laugh about Columbus Ave. It happens EVERY TIME we drive down there! Every time.
A 1997 study of dog bite fatalities in the years 1979 through 1996 revealed that the following breeds had killed one or more persons: pit bulls, Rottweilers, German shepherds, huskies, Alaskan malamutes, Doberman pinschers, chows, Great Danes, St. Bernards, and Akitas. (from http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/112004/11102004/1562575/printer_friendly)
So, is this “dog profiling,” “breedism,” or facts?
and they say they don't have the manpower to remove/deport illegals. oh please.
Hmmm, maybe because they commit more crimes than whites? Nah, couldn't be!
ping you again
Good points raised here.
As a white driver my own impression after living in a virtually all-white area of the country is that most drivers, whatever the ethnic makeup, are seriously disturbed. When I drive about seventy mph on Wisconsin’s I-90 and 94 I will be passed like I’m standing still by what it seems is every other driver on the road. People drive like maniacs on Wisconsin’s highways. And they’re just about all white from what I’ve observed.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — All hot and sweaty this summer? It could be the corn.
Climatologists are building evidence that crops, particularly corn, are driving up dew points as they put water into the atmosphere through evaporation. They also may make corn-growing areas cooler and alter rain patterns.
Some say the extra moisture could even add energy to thunderstorms, with one study arguing that a 2001 tornado in Benson got a power boost from corn evaporation.
“I think there’s a new realization that there is a two-way interaction between weather and agriculture,” said Richard Raddatz, a climatologist at the University of Winnipeg, who has studied the transformation of the Canadian prairies from grassland to cropland.
In some ways, researchers are taking a second look at a 19th century adage — “rain follows the plow.” Popularized by Charles Dana Wilber in an 1881 book touting the agricultural promise of Nebraska, the phrase supported a grand notion that the western Great Plains, which in the early 19th century had been labeled the “Great American Desert,” could be transformed into a garden if people would expose its moist soil to the atmosphere.
Rainy years added credibility to the idea, but it was discredited as pseudo-science after homesteaders who flooded the plains were trapped by drought and bankruptcy.
Raddatz, however, said there is a growing body of research indicating that contemporary crops do indeed change the way water, heat and energy interact with the atmosphere.
By “transpiring” more heavily than the prairie grasses that preceded them, and in relatively short periods, crops can generate air movements that can lead to storms, and intensify the season during which water is cycled through the atmosphere.
Raddatz published a summary of studies of cropping and weather in February in the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. They add some oomph to a 2002 study of dew points by Northern Illinois University climatologist David Changnon, which pinned a 40-year trend toward higher dew points in the Midwest, and record-high dew points during recent heat waves, on changes in farming. (Excerpt)
It has to do with the "R" word. And that word is REALITY