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I’m responding to Stephen Carnahan’s July 17 letter on Trooper John Darcy’s traffic stop on someone who looked like a “thug.”
Carnahan apparently never in his life saw individuals who were up to no good. Fortunately for him, there are guardians out there like Darcy, who are always looking.
Spotting a thug takes some time and experience. It starts with a “calling” into a profession that nobody wants to do, yet everyone knows how, thanks to “training films” like CSI and Cops.
Follow that calling with four years of military service instilling discipline, structure and command presence for one’s eventual meeting with said “thug.” Or, one could go the college route, gaining knowledge of the law, eventually earning that degree that so many agencies require. The truly dedicated do both.
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What, exactly, does a thug look like? In the July 14 article reporting that an internal State Police review found no racial profiling by Trooper John Darcy, this is the unanswered question.
Police authorities were right to be concerned that Trooper Darcy made this statement. What exactly, I’d like to know, made him think that the person he stopped “looked like a thug”?
I am not accusing the trooper of a consciously racist act. But there is a strong inclination in our society to identify African American men as criminals, and vice versa.
The word “thug” is also closely identified with Black men.