The Professor Gates arrest and political correctness
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On July 16, 2009, Harvard Professor http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=7581, Jr. was arrested by officer James Crowley of the Cambridge, Mass. Police department. A woman saw two men breaking into Gates’ house and asked another woman to call 911. Apparently Gates had come home and found the front door of his house jammed, so he and his driver forced it open. When officer Crowley arrived, Gates was in his house. But as far as the officer knew, Gates could have been a burglar.
Gates should have been grateful that his neighbors and the police were looking out for his property. He should have cooperated readily with the police to clear up the misunderstanding. But instead, he was uncooperative and verbally abusive, accusing the officer of racism. Officer Crowley arrested Gates for disorderly conduct and let his superiors sort it out. Once they did, they dropped the charges and released Gates. Gates then threatened to sue the Cambridge police for racism.
Racism is obviously not a factor. The police were not called because a black man was “just minding his own business,” but because a man whose race was not identified by the caller was breaking into Gates’ house. Gates was not arrested because he was a black man “just minding his own business,” but because he was at the scene of a break-in and was uncooperative with the police. The same thing would have happened if he were white.The fact is that a black gang-banger can be arrested standing over a corpse, http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4228. You are being arrested because you are up to your elbows in blood. If the police wanted to arrest someone “just because he is black,” there is no shortage of young black men loitering around “minding their own business” that they could nab. You don’t exactly need a dragnet to find them.
In a country the size of America, it is inevitable that there will be some cases of mistaken arrest, arbitrary arrest, police prejudice, and police brutality. But the fact remains, that the overwhelming reason why black males are so often arrested for crimes is that black males so often commit crimes. And law enforcement statistics show that black men are not arrested for crimes more often than they are reported by victims and witnesses to commit them.
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