The fact that the person in question was randomly stopped 12 times in 18 months is all the proof you need that this is being used to racially profile.
Appropriate-Dog6645 on
Quebec’s attorney general acknowledged racial profiling as a “major problem,” but insisted that police do random stops without taking the race of a car’s driver into account. Does that even make sense?
Benocrates on
If the stops were truly random it wouldn’t be an issue. RIDE programs are as close to random as you get. Areas are chosen, but everyone gets stopped. I think most people agree with or accept these.
“Random” stops of individual cars for no articulatable reason are just ripe for abuse, and clearly are being abused.
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The fact that the person in question was randomly stopped 12 times in 18 months is all the proof you need that this is being used to racially profile.
Quebec’s attorney general acknowledged racial profiling as a “major problem,” but insisted that police do random stops without taking the race of a car’s driver into account. Does that even make sense?
If the stops were truly random it wouldn’t be an issue. RIDE programs are as close to random as you get. Areas are chosen, but everyone gets stopped. I think most people agree with or accept these.
“Random” stops of individual cars for no articulatable reason are just ripe for abuse, and clearly are being abused.