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#177 Jul 22 2016 at 12:20 AM Rating: Good
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Black GOP Senator Talks About Being Pulled Over By Police 7 Times In One Year
Being poor is not why blacks are getting pulled over. It is because of the color of their skin.
I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year.
And how many times did they pull you over and ask you if the car was stolen?
More than once, I imagine, since he's driving around looking for white drug dealers.

That was his reasoning for getting pulled over, right?
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#178 Jul 22 2016 at 7:46 AM Rating: Good
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That was his reasoning for getting pulled over, right?
Or all the time he spends at school zones.
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#179 Jul 22 2016 at 10:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year. It is entirely about where and when you are driving.
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You know, when you said having a car gave you the freedom to drive anywhere you want, I kind of assumed you were still obeying traffic laws and stuff. Smiley: um
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#180 Jul 22 2016 at 10:33 AM Rating: Good
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If I was a white guy who couldn't go three weeks on average without the police pulling me over, I'd probably claim it's entirely about when and where I'm driving, too.
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#182 Jul 22 2016 at 10:59 AM Rating: Decent
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The police interaction stats for middle class middle aged black men is pretty similar to that of middle class middle aged white men. It's almost like it's not actually about skin color...

Clearly.


I read that article ( surprise ). How dare that white officer not recognize his Highness's bobby pin and do his job instead? What annoys me even more that a supervisor called to apologize instead of explaining why he needs his ID from time to time. Cuz not everyone ****** knows his ***.

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How dare that white officer not recognize his Highness's bobby pin and do his job instead?

Actually the guard said he recognized the pin, he just didn't believe that Senator Scott should be wearing it. After five years at the Capitol.

I won't pretend to know all the ins and outs of Capitol security and protocol, but this old Slate article suggests that Congressmen typically wear their pins to get past security without issue and that wearing your pin is less common in the Senate because, with their longer terms, guards recognize the senators. Which would make it curious that Scott was stopped because he was wearing his pin.

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#184 Jul 22 2016 at 11:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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Is this the official gun thread now?

Because more people are shooting people...
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#185 Jul 22 2016 at 1:20 PM Rating: Good
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If I was a white guy who couldn't go three weeks on average without the police pulling me over, I'd probably claim it's entirely about when and where I'm driving, too.
I'd just regale all with the tale of how I was born a poor black child.
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How dare that white officer not recognize his Highness's bobby pin and do his job instead?

Actually the guard said he recognized the pin, he just didn't believe that Senator Scott should be wearing it. After five years at the Capitol.

I won't pretend to know all the ins and outs of Capitol security and protocol, but this old Slate article suggests that Congressmen typically wear their pins to get past security without issue and that wearing your pin is less common in the Senate because, with their longer terms, guards recognize the senators. Which would make it curious that Scott was stopped because he was wearing his pin.

Edited, Jul 22nd 2016 12:12pm by Jophiel


Frankly, I do not know either. I was never a career politician and with my nonexistent social skills I am likely to remain so. That said, if you read the article you linked, you would notice that the first paragraph quotes McKinney as saying:

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"It is true that at the time I was not wearing my pin. But many Members of Congress aren't wearing their pins.."


I do think it may be a little too much to ask for a guard to recognize 435 rep. faces ( + 100 senator faces ). Granted, some of them are more memorable than others, but it may be a little ******* much don't you think?

But back to the point, how does that have anything to do with race? It does not. It reads like a guy's first day on the job who gets steamrolled by a guy who sees racism everywhere.

Addendum.

Two police cops stops in the past year. Also, one stop YTD. But those were suburbs cops. They is bored.


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#189 Jul 22 2016 at 6:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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That said, if you read the article you linked, you would notice that the first paragraph quotes McKinney as saying

Sure, but we were talking about Senator Scott. I simply linked the other article for a little information about the pins. Scott was wearing the pin and is one of 100 members on the Senate side of the building. He had also been there for five years when this happened. He wasn't one of the 435 on the House side, many of whom rotate out after two years.
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#190 Jul 22 2016 at 7:03 PM Rating: Good
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And more to the point, a quote from Senator Scott:
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It’s easy to identify a U.S. senator by our pin. I recall walking into an office building just last year after being here for five years on the Capitol, and the officer looked at me, with a little attitude, and said: “The pin, I know. You, I don’t. Show me your ID.”
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#191 Jul 22 2016 at 7:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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Two police cops stops in the past year. Also, one stop YTD. But those were suburbs cops. They is bored.
Smiley: dubious

Either you people are all weird or I need to learn to live a little. Smiley: lol
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#192 Jul 22 2016 at 7:33 PM Rating: Default
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I've only been pulled over three times.
1. DWB
2. The sound of my car while pulling out my school's parking lot
3. Forgot to turn on my headlights while driving at night.
#193 Jul 23 2016 at 4:45 AM Rating: Good
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Almalieque doesn't even sound oppressed, what are these police doing???
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#194 Jul 23 2016 at 6:29 AM Rating: Default
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If I thought about, I'm sure that I've had more "negative" run ins, than "positive"; however, I know that those interactions don't represent everyone.
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I've been driving with a busted tail light for two years now* and haven't been pulled over, even when there's a cop right behind me.

You all are doing it wrong.

*Replacing bulb didn't work, replacing the entire coupler unit for the rear lights didn't work, seems to be an electrical issue further up and then I stopped caring.
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#196 Jul 23 2016 at 8:50 AM Rating: Good
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I've been driving with a busted tail light for two years now* and haven't been pulled over, even when there's a cop right behind me.

You all are doing it wrong.

*Replacing bulb didn't work, replacing the entire coupler unit for the rear lights didn't work, seems to be an electrical issue further up and then I stopped caring.


Wow. my taillight was out for at max a week (I don't check this daily, sue me) before I got stopped.

Maybe you should look into smuggling or something.
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I*Replacing bulb didn't work, replacing the entire coupler unit for the rear lights didn't work, seems to be an electrical issue further up and then I stopped caring.
Had something like that on my old jeep. After I did the obvious replacements and things within my power, I had someone look into it at a shop while I was getting something else fixed (old car was old...). Was told it'd be several hundred dollars to tear off the paneling and replace the wires. Given the jeep wasn't even worth several hundred dollars things came to an obvious conclusion.

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Why do you think he's been to Hoffman Estates? 2.4x less likely to be searched... Smiley: tinfoilhat

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Yeah, I'll be replacing this car in the next six months so I just need to evade the notice of Johnny Law for that much longer!
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#199 Jul 25 2016 at 7:48 AM Rating: Good
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I've never been pulled over on the subway. Just sayin'.
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I've yet to get pulled over, but then I've only had a license for 1 year. I have had a friend pulled over in my neighborhood for driving while white. Police will pull people over and question why they are in the area of drug dealers, if they don't know you live around here. We have broken, tail light, but since we taped it with the correct tape and it still lights up, we don't have to worry.
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I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year.

Wow, you drive for shit, dude. That's not "neighborhoods" or even skin color -- you're just one fucking terrible driver.

Maybe he just drives around with a lot of drug dealers?


Not one ticket in all of those pull overs btw (well, except for one, but that was a special case). This was back when I was working a mix of swing and grave shifts, and thus was driving to or from work between the hours of 10:30PM and 2:30AM. And I drove through a section of town that was well known as having a fair number of meth dealers. So yeah, merely being the only car on the road driving through that part of town late at night gets you pulled over. A lot.

What was funny was that this particular area was covered by the county sheriffs department, not a local city department. I figured out quite quickly that they rotate their personnel around the county every 6 months (spring and fall IIRC), because I'd get pulled over 1-2 times a week for like 4-5 weeks, then not get pulled over again for 6 months. Then the pattern would repeat.

They aren't supposed to pull people over for no reason other than to check out the driver, but the reality is that's exactly what the cops do. And it has nothing at all to do with the skin color of the driver. It has to do with the time and location where they see your car. They make up excuses for why they pulled you over, usually giving you a "warning" about some minor thing (mirror not adjusted properly, tail light too dim, license plate obstructed, etc). The difference is that I don't assume that my skin color was why I got pulled over. I assume that the cops see a car driving through a questionable part of town late at night, and are bored, so they pull the car over. And guess what? If it's a predominately black area, it's going to mostly be black people being pulled over. Shocking, huh? And, if the national statistics show that black people are significantly more likely to live in a questionable area, guess what that does to the national stats on this sort of thing?

Does this mean that no cop uses racial bias? Of course not. But it's not the broad systemic problem that some are trying to make it out to be. As I've been saying all along, the only real solution to these skewed stats is to fix the underlying issue of disproportionate black poverty. Until we make measurable inroads in that problem, all the training and methodological changes on the part of the cops isn't going to change the relative stats. It can't.
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