An epiphany: Those who claim the U.S. is now a police state

[Savannahmann]

87. I am a paleface.

And I see the disparity of how blacks, and whites, are dealt with by police all the time. I even comment about it, and obviously that I find it wrong.

If one police car is present when a car is pulled over, 99 times out of 100 there is a white person driving. If more than one police car is present, then 9 times out of ten, it's a black behind the wheel. I see it everyday, and it makes me ashamed to be part of the populace that enables that system.

I saw a friend of mine pulled over on the way to work. I walked in an told the management that the friend might be late because the police were pulling over random black men in Mercedes Benz today. My friend arrived shortly and said the Police had pulled him over to admire the classic car he had rebuilt. Imagine that, pulled over so they could "admire" the classic car he had rebuilt.

We can't judge an event through the results. The ends do not justify the means. That is always the first defense when the NYPD Stop and frisk policy is questioned. They claim it has reduced crime. It doesn't make it constitutional, it may be effective, but not constitutional based upon the results. Also, I'd question the argument that it is effective, because they fiddle with numbers all the time. If a criminal plea bargains a charge of Assault down to disturbing the peace, then the assault bumps down on the crime statistics too.