Just the fact that I had to explain to my AA daughter at 16 years old what “driving while black” was
, well just completely wrong. Now that she is a Dr, and will be making money (after residency) I will need to tell her that if she upgrades in a vehicle that she will expect to be pulled over, just because. Definitely more training is needed.
A cdf would be easier to interpret, but I’m guessing at least a third of the officers were more respectful to blacks, based on your graph.
No one Black is shocked, even officers of color treat their own poorly many times. I didn’t need s study to tell me officers talk to us crazy. We all have a story or an immediate family member with a story.
@CottonTales Yes, depending on where your daughter lives and what she upgrades to she may get stopped.
She has seen this story?
Or an older AA college classmate who kept getting stopped by cops who automatically assumed the BMW he was driving must have been obtained because he was a drug dealer or from some other criminal activity…not because of the fact he received it as his HS graduation present from parents who earned their way into the upper-classes as a medical doctor and senior fortune 500 exec. And he dresses very formally for an undergrad because he was a Double-Degree student who must perform at recitals.
And this treatment continued as I witnessed firsthand when he kept getting stopped for ID checks by Harvard police despite the fact he was a Harvard STEM PhD student giving me a tour of the area around his department/lab.
Conversely, I’ve never been stopped for ID checks while on the Harvard campus despite the fact I was not a student the majority of times I visited the campus. Neither had HS classmates, friends, and colleagues who were Harvard alums and not URMs.
Not too long after this took place(early-mid-'00s), things came to a head when a group of AA Harvard students gathering together on a Quad for a picnic/hangout in one of the Harvard houses ended up having the police called on them by other undergrads because “they didn’t seem to belong there”. At that point, even the HUPD admins were forced to admit they had a serious issue and needed to work with the Harvard community…especially URM members to resolve it.
Lol, she looks 15 without makeup. Always was asked for magazines or snacks when she was doing 3rd year rotations, always thought she was the candy striper. She would professionally tell them she was in their surgery. Her nickname is Dougiette Houser.
@ucbalumnus, no , but I will forward it to her…
Seems like another example of a situation where, even if the police themselves behave perfectly and in a non-racist manner, they cannot control who calls them for service and why (i.e. racist people calling the police about a “suspicious person” because any black person is “suspicious” to them). In this case, was anything done to address the possible racism among the “other undergrads” who called the police?