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<blockquote data-quote="ups1990" data-source="post: 729991" data-attributes="member: 20195"><p>Let&#039;s not give the police a total pass on the racial profiling part. We all hope they truly stop individuals based on cause and not race. Here in so cal, the police stops all suspected gang members. An inner city kid can be walking to the corner store and see someone he grew up with. Maybe they went to elementary and middle school together but one went astray and joined a gang. The boy not involved in gangs, stops to say high to him. The police can stop these two young men and question them both. The youngster stopping to say high to an old friend will many times be classified as a documented gang members or associating with gang members. This label is very difficult to shake and in for some reason gets arrested in the future, the district attorney will levy a harsher sentence due to this unfair documentation. This is one instrument the police uses that I have a problem with. My whole youth was spent living in the inner city and can attest to this profiling. Some of my childhood friends went astray but many others by the mercy of God, did not.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ups1990, post: 729991, member: 20195"] Let's not give the police a total pass on the racial profiling part. We all hope they truly stop individuals based on cause and not race. Here in so cal, the police stops all suspected gang members. An inner city kid can be walking to the corner store and see someone he grew up with. Maybe they went to elementary and middle school together but one went astray and joined a gang. The boy not involved in gangs, stops to say high to him. The police can stop these two young men and question them both. The youngster stopping to say high to an old friend will many times be classified as a documented gang members or associating with gang members. This label is very difficult to shake and in for some reason gets arrested in the future, the district attorney will levy a harsher sentence due to this unfair documentation. This is one instrument the police uses that I have a problem with. My whole youth was spent living in the inner city and can attest to this profiling. Some of my childhood friends went astray but many others by the mercy of God, did not. [/QUOTE]

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