alexander s book the new jim crow if white males were locked up at young blackmail males there would be a national crisis. if this had been happening to white people, this would be national headlines. pretty tough interviews on. it an example of a type of profiling that is done uniform is in california dui stops. the don t just stop they don t let mercedes drive through the stop and only stop so-called poor cars, et cetera. everybody gets stopped at a dui stop. they set up across the road if you do a u turn you get caught. if you re going to stop people, follow people, follow everybody. stop everybody. stop the guys in wall street on the way to work and see if they have any illegal prescription drugs in their pocket. we just had a narrow election
this is just what happens. and we know that they feel the prisons in this country. the data is appalling. when you look at marijuana for instance statistics show that young black and young whites are equally likely to smoke marijuana. but young black get arrested four times as many times as whites or in some cases eight times as many whites. the decks are stacked. the legal penalties that come with the same carrying et cetera et cetera. what we re talking about here basically is racial profiling from a stop and frisk standpoint, talking about in a store. and we re a better country than this type of behavior. apartmend macy s is a better than this. in the college in summers i worked in retail, a sales girl worked for a department store in seattle bought by macy s. we were instructed don t try to catch shoplifts you can t. a professional shoplifter is very clever, very savvy. you re not going to spot them.