10.31.08
it’s so sad that this is not surprising
Palo Alto Police Chief instructs officers to question African-Americans and “find out who they are”:
more about “Palo Alto Police chief says remarks a…“, posted with vodpod
While the chief defends her instructions (at least in this news report, she says they were misinterpreted here) as being due to a lack of other descriptives besides race, it is hard to imagine that had the only description of the suspects been that they were white, similar instructions would have been given.
Uncommon Priors » Voting rationality as altruism (take that, Ayn Rand!), and the mysterious psychology of the Yellow-Tailed American Voter said,
November 4, 2008 at 4:02 pm
[...] Let us not forget that racism is still alive, even in liberal Palo Alto. [...]
Uncommon Priors » Dear Palo Alto Criminals: If you run, they can’t chase you! said,
December 5, 2008 at 3:05 pm
[...] amount is quite a lot. Part of this is political (distaste at many criminal laws + distaste at police racism and general misbehavior + distrust of the sort of person who would want to be a cop), and part of [...]