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| 'U' Students Want Crime Alerts To Avoid Using Racial Descriptions |
| 2014-01-30 |
| School officials at the University of Minnesota are working with black student and facility organizations after they wrote a letter to the school's president about the racial descriptions given in crime alerts. The organizations wrote that while campus safety is crucial, the profiling can be devastating for black male students. "[We] unanimously agree that campus safety should be of the UMPD's utmost importance; however, efforts to reduce crime should never be at the expense of our Black men, or any specific group of people likely to be targeted. In addition to causing Black men to feel unsafe and distrusted, racial profiling is proven to inflict negative psychological effects on its victims." At Wednesday's forum, Ian Taylor Jr., president of the Black Men's Forum, said members of his organization feel threatened when the use of a racial description is given in the crime alerts. "The repeated black, black, black suspect," Taylor said. "And what that does it really discomforts the mental and physical comfort for students on campus because they feel like suspicions begin to increase." They could report the suspect looked like Obama thirty years ago. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #7 Delete the description and photo of the perp. No one will know. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-30 19:58 |
| #6 Male, Other than White, Asian, Polynesian or Mongol, wearing a hoodie. Think that would work? |
| Posted by: tipover 2014-01-30 19:55 |
| #5 Maybe as a sign of solidarity the 'black student union' should drop the black from their own name. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-01-30 19:48 |
| #4 "...racial profiling is proven to inflict negative psychological effects on its victims.” Yeah. Crime does the same thing... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-01-30 19:13 |
| #3 The 'we refuse to clean our own house' complaint. Amazing, back during segregation how this wasn't such a problem as much of the behavior wasn't tolerated among the community. After 50 years of blaming someone else for their own problems, they just want to hide it rather than deal with it directly. However, they'll blame everything else on the Klan, or the Tea Party, or whatever for the actions of a few in the other community and demand action be taken. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-01-30 19:09 |
| #2 Well maybe the "black, black, black suspects" should stop committing crimes? Crazy idea, but then the APB going out wouldn't have BLACK in the suspect description. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-01-30 18:36 |
| #1 And gender. Don't forget gender! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-01-30 16:47 |