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August 12, 2005
Would you arrest this man?
In my career at Barnes and Noble, I have been scammed twice (that I know of). The second one was a 30 year old black woman with a ghetto accent and bad checks. The first, though, the first was an 70+ year old white woman who seemed more likely to be giving out apple pie than running a book-return scam (I won’t go into details). Just so that we’re clear, both women were very definitely running scams. Both women were very definitely aware of what they were doing. Only one of them fit any “profile”...
Which is why profiling is a waste of time. In a world where Martha Stewart and OJ Simpson are both criminals, all must be presumed equally likely to be guilty-- until we have specific evidence of specific wrongdoing linked to specific people.
Ultimately, those calling for us to have “common sense” in deciding who to randomly search are engaged in anti-survival behavior. I want to catch the White terrorists too, before they commit their dastardly deeds...
Posted by Andrew at August 12, 2005 11:09 AM
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"In a world where Martha Stewart and OJ Simpson are both criminals, all must be presumed equally likely to be guilty..." I know I assume that all rich people are guilty.
Posted by: RevChad at August 13, 2005 09:28 PM
Were the two specific women mentioned rich? I doubt it. There is a small minority of the innocent.
Posted by: jessica at August 15, 2005 07:07 PM