tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post146759611452103713..comments2024-03-27T14:54:46.050-04:00Comments on Southern District of Florida Blog: Race and criminal justiceDavid Oscar Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18386723948607633980noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-37450478349316708132021-04-20T10:08:42.748-04:002021-04-20T10:08:42.748-04:00How about if the car owner comes back with a felon...How about if the car owner comes back with a felony warrant and isn't just some dipshit who refuses to renew his registration? Do they get a free pass because they don't respect the police?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-19841115463030442262021-04-19T15:47:43.487-04:002021-04-19T15:47:43.487-04:00Or, as 10:38 might have said more concisely: Today...Or, as 10:38 might have said more concisely: Today, one should make a point of NOT pulling over African Americans for minor civil infractions because Blacks fear and distrust cops and cops generally do not respect them. No stop, then no opportunity for unfortunate mistakes. I have driven for eight months with an expired sticker, while young Black clients get stopped if a sticker is three days expired.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-85156929997852485672021-04-19T10:38:32.159-04:002021-04-19T10:38:32.159-04:00@10:09 - I'd recommend the book "Talking ...@10:09 - I'd recommend the book "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell. <br /><br />You are 100% right from the micro point of view. It is illegal to drive with an expired tag and the cop is correctly policing when he pulls someone over for driving with an expired tag. And probably, each discrete step in the process of the stop was technically correct too. This case in particular seems on point since he had a felony warrant.<br /><br />But on the macro level, we see an alarming trend where black people, black men in particular, are pulled over (usually with legal cause!) and the cops do things in a technically correct manner, and suddenly very minor non-violent offenses (like driving with an expired tag or turning without proper use of a signal) escalate into police shooting black men. <br /><br />There is a systemic problem. I am not arguing that the individual cops are racist. Nor am I arguing that the intent of the laws/systems is racist. But the outcome is pretty undeniably both horrible and racially colored (no pun intended). <br /><br />When we look at police shootings and we analyze them ONLY from the micro point of view (which is to say, on an individual case-by-case basis, microscopically considering them step-by-step) we blind ourselves to the greater societal issues at play and to the broad consequences of the policies we implement as a society. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-31389828531447522972021-04-19T10:09:22.067-04:002021-04-19T10:09:22.067-04:00He was stopped because the cops ran his expired ta...He was stopped because the cops ran his expired tag and saw that he had a felony warrant. It was not a Driving While Black situation where they pulled over someone for a minor violation and then coerced consent to search the car.<br />What would you have the Supreme Court do? Do we really want every stop to be litigated as to whether it was a pretext even when there was a valid reason for the stop? That would be absurd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com