Joshua HollandCT state troopers entered up to 60K fake tickets, issued to imaginary white people, to game a database designed to ferret out racial profiling. (And didn't enter real tickets issued to Black people.) One in 4 troopers were doing it. And it seems like nobody is being punished for this crime.
A Tattered Scrapbook@JoshuaHolland You know when people talk about systemic racism, and “centrists” get uncomfortable and defensive…?
This, right here, is the system, being racist, using more racism to try to hide the initial racism, and, caught, going unpunished by the racist system.
Connecticut. Not Florida. Democrat governor. Democrat senators.
How do you fix this?
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@Tattered @JoshuaHolland in the 90s I lived in an affluent, liberal area of SE England (the town of Reading, which is a bit like "British Seattle"). Thames Valley Police were instructed to record the ethnicity of those they stopped and searched.
I am of East/SE Asian ancestry (which is code IC5 in UK), but nearly always got recorded on the sheet as IC1 (White) whenever I got stop checked..
Tom Forsyth@vfrmedia @Tattered @JoshuaHolland What the apartheid-era South Africans called an "Honorary White" to make it totally not racist at all.