Most all of my black friends (or African Americans if you prefer) live with
being pulled over quite often. I think it even gets to the point where they
feel that it's just something you have to deal with and they expect it. One
such friend was astonished when I told him I'd only ever been pulled over
once. He get's pulled over quite a lot, as does his parents, friends, etc.
And these are all middle to upper class people. They just happen to have
the wrong skin color.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of raf
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: PDAs are searchable by cops, I expect. Re: Transparency,
> wasre: On January 28th, Criminals No Longer Another Face ...
>
>
>
>
> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> > At 12:16 PM -0600 2/5/01, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> > >I think as long as we don't commit any crimes, we don't
> have so much
> > >to concern
> > >us.
> >
> > This is not true. When I was 20, I used to teach computer seminars
> > at my company's Ft. Lauderdale division every weekend for a
> while. I
> > looked younger for my age. I was driving a Trans Am,
> wearing a suit,
> > with a briefcase in the passenger seat, and kept under the speed
> > limit driving down I-95 on weekends. I fit many of the profiling
> > attributes of a young drug dealer. As such, I was stopped and
> > searched on most trips. They would go through my checkbook, my
> > briefcase, my cell-phone, everything. I tried giving them
> > permission to search, I tried denying them permission to search, but
> > nothing worked. You might think that they might learn to recognize
> > me, but this made it even worse, when one of the cops would remember
> > having stopped me on suspicion on previous occasions. I have even
> > had guns drawn on me once when I said that I would not consent to a
> > search. Being law abiding offers no protection from the police.
> > --
> > Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com>
>
> That sounds surprising, unless you were carrying drugs or contraband.
>
> Ross
>
>
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