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Do you mean not investigating rape rings because of fear of being called racist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal http

• colemickens 10y ago
  Oh, a "counter" incident. Institutional racism is officially over!
  • the-dude 10y ago
    It is not over, what I pointed at IS racism. This is not an incident however, this is happening all over Europe. Police are hesitant to reveal real rates of crime, Dutch police advising victims not to press charges because the Northern-African suspects are known to make your life miserable. Calling statistical profiling racial profiling instead etc.
    • lukeschlather 10y ago
      Ethnic profiling is bunk. It kind of works in areas like Israel, where there is literally a war on and the goal of profiling is not to determine criminality, but which side of the war you are on. If you're trying to determine criminality, ethnic profiling doesn't work. It's been proven time and again. It's amazing that we're still having this debate 70 years after the West shed eugenics.
      • Chris2048 10y ago
        > proven time and again ... after the West shed eugenics Given how you conflate racial profiling and eugenics, I'd be skeptical of what you consider proven. But you are right, race doesn't correlate directly with criminality - but it does correlate if it correlates with something else that does e.g. religious membership.
    • richmarr 10y ago
      > It is not over, what I pointed at IS racism. Not sure it's either accurate or useful to classify the Rotherham situation as racism.
• richmarr 10y ago
  What's your point? Are you claiming that a significant base of evidence is somehow disproven because of one incident?
  • the-dude 10y ago
    My point is that in Western Europe police is being accused of racism because they employ statistical profiling. Which is then called racist by its opponents.
    • lostlogin 10y ago
      With the track records of the police forces involved, are you surprised people have a degree of scepticism?
      • the-dude 10y ago
        What track record of the Dutch police? Do you have sources? If anything, the Dutch police force is one of most docile of the world. And my feeling is this holds true for the UK as well.
        • lostlogin 10y ago
          Excuse the Daily Mail link sorry and the other link is a police murder with the mayor discussing police racism. The Dutch police are very good by nearly all accounts, but it's not hard to find accounts of racism. The UK police have a very long and much worse history of racism with the Met being front and centre (less so now than 10+ years ago though). I won't post a link for them as it is extremely easy to find many many cases unfortunately. Pick you examples with them, beatings, killings, harassment, illegal searches etc. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3163974/Boy-13-handcuffed-motorcycle-police-officer-run.html www.nltimes.nl/2015/07/09/hague-mayor-admits-police-racism-chief-breaks-down-over-fatal-arrest/
  • ptaipale 10y ago
    It wasn't exactly "one incident". The Rotherham thing was a systematic failure caused by intentionally engineered race/ethnicity-based policy.