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When you are on of a crowd, you don't get treated like a suspect. When you are 1 of five you get treated like a suspect. A criminal. That direct implications on
by mola 7y ago
When you are on of a crowd, you don't get treated like a suspect.
When you are 1 of five you get treated like a suspect. A criminal. That direct implications on your well being. 4 people out of 5 will be Innocents that get treated like criminals. I don't want to live in that world.
- sysbin 7y agoWe're already living in a worse world than that.
- darawk 7y agoOk...but that happens all the time. If you look like someone that just robbed a liquor store and you're in the area, cops will stop you until they can clear you as a suspect. This is how policing has always worked.
- duxup 7y agoIs a dragnet where everyone in a given area is checked even all that common? Seems unlikely. But with technology we can suddenly do it 24/7, numerous places, and for all sorts of crimes at the push of a button...the implications of that many people as suspects, that volume of innocent people accused seems pretty bad.
- cortesoft 7y agoIf you are black, you already live in that world.
- SkyBelow 7y agoMore so than if you are male?
- charlescearl 7y agoIn Britain, yes https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/stop-and-frisk-not-just-american-problem https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/stop-and-frisk...
- SkyBelow 7y agoI've only calculated it for the US, but the gender disparity was roughly 3 times the racial disparity. I'm not saying there isn't a racial disparity, I'm asking what are the numbers compared to gender disparity.