Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 10, 2022 4:21:57 GMT 12
P H writes > PROFILING: WHY IT OCCURS
I'm part-Maori. Not so obviously, but you can see it if you look hard.
If I apply for a job and get it that's good.
If I apply and don't get it, I don't go all "snowflake" about it, I simply accept that the employer felt another applicant was a better fit with the position.
If a cop pulls me over, I accept he is just doing his job.
If I threaten a cop or physically assault him, and he uses force to subdue me, I probably deserve it.
If I am arrested, I accept that I have broken the law.
If I get put in jail for committing a crime, I accept that might be the consequence of breaking the law.
You pays your money and you takes your chance.
As for shopkeepers or cops "profiling" people, if the browner part-Maori don't like being followed around stores or singled out for police attention, as a group they need to lose the well-deserved reputation they have acquired for thieving and violent behaviour.
A friend is the night manager of a large Countdown supermarket in Auckland. She is a Filipina, and considerably browner than most part-Maori.
She tells me 99% of those they bust for shoplifting are part-Maori or Pacific Island Polynesian, aged between 12 - 25, who come into the store in groups specifically to steal. Some distract staff or block cameras while others do the stealing.
When busted they are foul-mouthed, threatening, and aggressive, acting like THEY'RE the ones being victimised.
"You're just picking on us because we're brown" is the prevailing refrain.
Nope, you’re getting the arm put on you because you’re a thieving c*nt.
I think it fair to say my friend has no undue prejudice against brown people, being brown herself. She simply knows from experience who the shitbag shoplifters are most likely to be.
That’s how ‘profiling’ works. You direct your enforcement effort to where experience shows you it is most needed.
So if part-Maori don't like being followed around stores or otherwise singled out for police attention don’t blame whitey, blame your cuzzies who give the rest of you a bad name.
Lift your game as a group.
I'm part-Maori. Not so obviously, but you can see it if you look hard.
If I apply for a job and get it that's good.
If I apply and don't get it, I don't go all "snowflake" about it, I simply accept that the employer felt another applicant was a better fit with the position.
If a cop pulls me over, I accept he is just doing his job.
If I threaten a cop or physically assault him, and he uses force to subdue me, I probably deserve it.
If I am arrested, I accept that I have broken the law.
If I get put in jail for committing a crime, I accept that might be the consequence of breaking the law.
You pays your money and you takes your chance.
As for shopkeepers or cops "profiling" people, if the browner part-Maori don't like being followed around stores or singled out for police attention, as a group they need to lose the well-deserved reputation they have acquired for thieving and violent behaviour.
A friend is the night manager of a large Countdown supermarket in Auckland. She is a Filipina, and considerably browner than most part-Maori.
She tells me 99% of those they bust for shoplifting are part-Maori or Pacific Island Polynesian, aged between 12 - 25, who come into the store in groups specifically to steal. Some distract staff or block cameras while others do the stealing.
When busted they are foul-mouthed, threatening, and aggressive, acting like THEY'RE the ones being victimised.
"You're just picking on us because we're brown" is the prevailing refrain.
Nope, you’re getting the arm put on you because you’re a thieving c*nt.
I think it fair to say my friend has no undue prejudice against brown people, being brown herself. She simply knows from experience who the shitbag shoplifters are most likely to be.
That’s how ‘profiling’ works. You direct your enforcement effort to where experience shows you it is most needed.
So if part-Maori don't like being followed around stores or otherwise singled out for police attention don’t blame whitey, blame your cuzzies who give the rest of you a bad name.
Lift your game as a group.