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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe ACLU thinks Florida has a profiling problem...
THE MAN ON THE LEFT [Martin Luther King] Is 75 Times More Likely To Be Stopped By The Police While Driving Than THE MAN ON THE RIGHT [Charles Manson].
For example, in Florida, 80% of those stopped and searched were black and Hispanic while they constituted only 5% of all drivers. --ACLU ad.
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The ACLU thinks Florida has a profiling problem... (Original Post)
Generic Other
Mar 2012
OP
Doesn't that ad date back to the 90s class action against the Fla. Highway Patrol?
Blue_Tires
Mar 2012
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Little Star
(17,055 posts)1. Ya think? k&r
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)5. Took the words right out of my mouth.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. Doesn't that ad date back to the 90s class action against the Fla. Highway Patrol?
It looks familiar
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)6. Yes, but it seemed like a nice reminder that things hadn't changed much
"Driving While Black" I think was what the ACLU was drawing attention to.
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)3. Excellent!
Its not just Florida that has a racial profiling problem. My son and his family live in the Omaha, Nebraska area. They live in a mostly white neighborhood and have two adopted black children, ages 8 and 1. Police stopped the elder one while he was riding his bicycle down the street in front of their house and asked him whose bike it was.
Loudmxr
(1,405 posts)4. Of couse they do.. it looks like a dick with sagging balls.
I could not resist the profile joke.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)7. Well that took me way too long to get!
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)8. FL is among the five states that lead the nation
in active hate groups per the SPLC.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)9. I have only lived in this state for 5 years
Yet even I can see the chasm in this state since the Alien in Chief has taken over. Hell, public employees are now drug addicts!!!!!! You are GUILTY until proven innocent in this state now.
barbtries
(28,817 posts)10. that is a very telling statistic.
wow. i think the ACLU is right.