Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
No, but being the same race, while driving a car a local cop is unfamiliar with, while they are looking for someone described as black and from out of town, that is.
No actually it's not.

And since when does a cop know all the cars in the town he lives in? Fuck off.

And who has ever been described as 'black and from out of town'? Unless this town is made up of less than 100 people, then fuck off again.



Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
And to be clear, we're using the word "detain" loosely here, as in detained at the road side for five minutes. Cop can do that for pretty much any reason, such as checking the tread on your tires.
No actually he has to have a reason. Unless he can see the tread on your tires is low while they're spinning (in which case he isn't really a cop, but Superman), he can't just pull you over to randomly check your vehicle for faults.

The cops in my hometown more than once used this 'random check' bullshit on me, when their real reason was that I was over the legal limit of Native American blood. If I was older and wiser I would have busted their asses for it. And they would have gotten sanctioned. And rightly so.



Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
Of course the cop needs more to make an arrest, but getting pulled over is part and parcel of driving a car, just like stopping at traffic lights. It happens to most people, and it's nearly always for a reason. Does it happen to more people than others? Sure. I'm betting black Mercedes get pulled over more often than Nissan Micras. I'm guessing fast cars get pulled over more than slow ones. I'm guessing people of all races get pulled over more often in crime hotspots than in low crime areas. Cops have got a job to do, and racial profiling is inevitably part of that job, because skin colour is an important aspect of a person's description. Is offending racially sensitive people worse than crime?
All kinds of excuses can be used, but you're infringing on someone's rights if you pull them over based on their skin colour, i.e., without a good reason. A person has a right to go about their business without being repeatedly stopped by police for having a certain shade of skin.