Is that an exaggeration? Well, it's not as if white people are burning down the "City of Brotherly Love" as we speak, now is it? So permit us our tiny indulgences:
A disgraced [black - which means the Philly PD is racist for firing him] ex-police officer testifying against his drug squad colleagues acknowledged Tuesday that he stole drug money, planted evidence and lied on police paperwork too many times to count. Jeffrey Walker told jurors that the Philadelphia Police Department drug squad targeted white “college-boy … khaki-pants types” who were “easy to intimidate.” [emphasis added]
Nothing racist about that, was there?
Or....was there?
That matches the description of some of the drug dealers who have testified at the six-week police corruption trial that the squad stole as much as $110,000 at a time during violent, no-warrant raids.
More than 160 drug convictions have been overturned since Walker pleaded guilty and the others were named in a twenty-six-count indictment. Scores of civil-rights lawsuits are pending over the arrests. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey has voiced his disgust with the squad’s alleged crimes while continuing his effort to clean out and reform the 7,000-member department.
What are the lessons here? One is that, in its proper police work context, "profiling" of ANY sort is a legitimate law enforcement tactic. Not every demographic group is going to be equally likely to commit a particular crime in every given locality; some will always be more likely than others, so in that local context it makes sense to profile according to the physical traits of whatever group or sub-group is most likely to produce the most likely suspects. Just as obviously, that law enforcement tactic can be abused, and it shouldn't be overly relied upon, but it is one police tool among many. Which means that ex-Officer Walker, crooked and corrupt as he was and is, was not inherently wrong to profile as he did.
But if he'd been white, and had profiled "black, street-corner hoodie types" or whatever, Philly would be burning as we speak, and white people wouldn't be the ones carrying the hissing torches and shooting cops and caving in innocent skulls and firebombing local businesses, all under the approving eyes of the Obama Regime. Which is the OTHER takeaway from this story, and which will never be heeded until Regime-change is carried out in Washington, D.C.
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