Yes but nobody posted in there for ages so it got buried.
We got a Jojo’s bizarre adventure thread. Does that count?
Saving a few bucks here and there for something equates to not deserving it now?
Why would you even say that, because you don’t like belts?
What if it was a car? Because he can’t afford it then and there he shouldn’t get it? Wtf is wrong with ya’ll?
It’s perfectly fine to waste money on dumb shit just as long as it’s something YOU like, such as video games and action figures lol.
I would buy a $350 belt to give to Angelpalm’s dad to beat his AP’s ass!
Shit, I would gladly take that ass whooping if it meant my dad was alive again. Speaking of which, I remember him having ties and shirts that were worth way more than a paltry 350. Thr man was a snappy dresser thats for sure.
this incident reminds me of one of my favorite boondocks episodes with ann coulter. lol. at 5:30 in. its not really directly related to this incident, but i thought the stolen cars line was too funny. i could see some moron saying something like that about these two young adults and what happened in barneys.
“just like if they dont want the police to pull them over, they shouldnt be driving stolen cars.” ha!
why are some of you complaining about a $350 belt?
don’t some of you guys spend that much on anime figurines?
Haha people really still believe this? I mean, I know insurance conpanies say that but its just a ploy to get more money out of men since they make more money in the workplace (hold dat!). I thought everyone else in the world knew by now that women are far more aggressive drivers
I can only imagine what the APB message was moments before the arrrest…
“Be on the lookout for a youngin’ G’ with a $350.00 belt. coughniggacough. 10-4”
The cops wouldnt say nigga. Theyd just say nigger
America aye? Whatcha gonna do?
If im going to spend that much on belt it would be this one…
http://www.wwe.com/f/styles/photo_large/public/photo/image/2013/02/34_sDIBIASE_11121991_0001.jpg
Money, money, money, money, money. Everyone’s got a price. Everyone’s gonna pay.
No one is allowed to save up for anything
People often act based on their past experience. If you frequently see people from a given demographic committing crimes, chances are you’re going to scrutinize them more. And really, if the primary job of a police officer is to stop crime, it makes complete logical sense they’d spend more time with certain demographics.
Granted, one might also argue that it’s because they spend more time with that demographic that the arrest rates are so high, but there are other non-white demographics that don’t have such inflated percentages.
Thanks for posting this. If I remember correctly, African Americans account for roughly 13% of the US population. Therefore, with all things being equal, we would expect them to account for about 13% of each type of crime. Anything significantly above that percentage would be considered abnormal and indicating some other underlying variables at work.
In terms of African Americans in particular and according to the statistics you linked, in 2011 the only crime categories that are around the expected 13% are: Driving under the influence (12.1%), Liquor laws (13.5%), and Drunkenness (15.5%). Every other category is inflated, some as high as 55% and 66% (which is about 4-5 times higher than the expected value). When 13% of the population is representing 66% of a crime, something is very wrong.
In contrast, Native Americans account for about 1% of the US population, and most of the crimes hover around that percentage. A few crimes get up to around 2%, which is about double what you would expect. Whites, which account for around 80% of the national population, tend to be much lower than their expected percentages on all but a few crime categories (Vandalism, sex crimes, and liquor related violations). Asians are considerably lower than their expected value, only breaking 2% on a couple categories.
Thanks for posting some obvious and extreme examples of how society could use profiling. In my post I attempted to illustrate that profiling isn’t always bad. It’s a tool. Sure, you can use a tool to do fucked up things but that doesn’t mean it’s inherently bad.
By that logic we could say the internet is bad because people could use it to steal identities or post on SRK.
A psychologist isn’t a medical doctor. A psychologist is a behavioral scientist. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor that studies how drugs and brain chemistry alters behavior, but that’s a whole other field. I never claimed to be either of these things. I’m a graduate student in psychology about to get my Masters degree and hopefully on to get my PhD.
If you’re going to mock or belittle me for my area of study at least know a little something about it.
Also, as I illustrated in my post, profiling isn’t necessarily unethical. It’s used in virtually all forms of research. The next time you go to the doctor and you get a prescription, the doctor is basing that prescription on profiling you in how much your situation matches other known successful outcomes.
Stay free to ad hominems.
Those stats are for arrest. ARREST. Which coupled with high conviction rates for blacks(which you can already figure considering their abnormal prison population in comparison to whites even though white people get arrested MORE) just goes to show one thing, and guess what that is. You seriously sounding border line Stormfront.org with that whole “well if there are only so many niggers then why do they do all the crime?” rhetoric lol.
Do you even read my posts?
That is really dumb btw. “they only make up 13% of the nation so they should make up 13% of the crime” All black people are criminals now? All people in america in general are criminals now? Lots of variables affect those numbers. Using them to argue for profiling is dumb.
I was going to explain to you how probability works. I even had this great idea of using a bag with 100 marbles with 13 black ones.
But fuck it. I give up. Never mind.
Jesus Christ.
Profiling makes sense most of the time…but people don’t really want to say that out loud because it’s an “uncomfortable” subject or whatever. For example, what comes to mind for most people when you think of a serial killer that snapped at work one day…(hint; most people aren’t thinking of a black or hispanic person)? Besides me, of course… occasionally it’s an incorrect assumption, like I’m sure the D.C. Sniper case threw everyone for a loop when we found out who he was. Or another one… if you hear on the first 3 seconds of a news story that a suicide bomber just went off at a local shopping center… are you really thinking it could’ve been a 92-year old mexican woman? …or an 8-year old Asian-american kid that grew up in Indianapolis? …or a 20-something year old black woman from Memphis, TN? No, you already know which category of the person is most likely going to be from…of course there’s those exceptions to the rule, but your assumption will be correct most of the time. This is really off on a tangent, but profiling is the natural way to narrow things down quickly for the sake of being efficient in concluding who the most likely suspect is. You see this shit all the time on “Criminal Minds” (e.g.–"…our killer is most likely a white male, mid to late 30s, ex-military… perhaps he had a traumatic event recently in life like the loss of a job, or divorce, etc." <—but oh no that’s profiling, that would be bad.) or any of those other crime shows and movies.
Really, a store clerk should only be concerned about getting the damn sale though. It’s not like she’s a detective on a case.