Racial profiling

[iceman5]

[Felonius_Monk]

[EscapePlan9]

[Beavis68]

[Pozzo]

[NorthView]

That guy gets my vote for weirdest BTP poster ever.

[MVPSPORTS]

With all the typos he just HAS to be related to Rhound, right?

[NorthView]

Yeah. What killed me was how he was illiterate and ignorant and still thought he had the right to say who's intelligent and who isn't. Amazing.

[deadmeat]

[iceman5]

Bringing in drug dogs and all that is way overboard. That would never happen here. Are you sure it was really 3 hours that you were detained? Thats very hard for me to believe. Most cops dont spend 3 hours on a full blown arrest including taking the guy to jail and doing all paperwork. Maybe they had a tip about some big drug shipment coming in and the vehicle matched yours? Who knows.

What amazes me is that a black person in this same situation would be much more likely to sue and / or file a complain against the police and / or call the media and make a big deal out of it.

Im sure its because blacks do get discriminated against more than other races, but they are also much quicker to claim racism as an excuse for everything.

[EscapePlan9]

[EscapePlan9]

[excession]

Hmm I've been stopped once - In my new car on the way back thru Longsight (not a great area of Manchester) from the movies at midnight. They were pulling over all the cars on the road for a random insurance check.

Conversation went:

P: 'Is this your car sir?'

Me: 'Yes, I've just bought it'

P; 'Where have you come from sir'

Me 'Just on my way back from the movies, I live at [gives address]'

P: 'Do you know the registration number?'

Me ' No, it's a new car and I'm afraid I can't remember it'

P; 'Is it insured?'

Me 'Yes officer. [looks for car tax holder given out free by insurance company], by e-sure'

P: 'Do you have a licence on you sir'

Me : 'No, it's at home' [in the UK carrying your driving licence isn;t compulsory but poice can put you on a 3 day 'producer' if you don't have it;]

P; 'Do you mind staying here while we ring in an registration number check?'

'Me 'Not at all'.

P: 'What do you do for a living sir?'

Me' I'm a Solicitor, officer'

P; Looks at me, looks at the car in front who his partner has stopped and which appears to have no insurance and a young man inside.
'It doesn't matter. On you way, sir. Have a good evening..'


Having driven around Manchester late at night (I used to go out clubbing 3 times/week and didn't drink when out) for 15 years that is the only time I have ever been stopped.

I have been stopped once only at customs too and as he started unpacking my bags he asked me what I did. When I told him he said it didn;t matter and waived me through.


I am sure that if I was a young black man driving a flashy car I would have been stopped more than once every 15 years.

Now part of it is because I don't drive a flashy car but most of it is because I'm not black.

The reason they don't even bother to go through the motions with me is firstly me job, but probably as importantly, my impeccable middle class accent.

To those outside the UK it is hard to understand how much accent still reflects your class and level of education - I was born in Sunderland in the North-East for example, but listening to my accent you couldn't place me within 200 miles of the place.

It is used as a shorthand throughout social interactions and when it comes to instant judgments about someone in the UK is still much more important than the colour of their skin (assuming you can hear them).

[iceman5]

[deadmeat]