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Friday, May 26, 2006

What happens when you start to profile in the Suburbs......



I have just recently gotten hip to Dateline's shows dealing with the pursuit and apprehension of child molesters. I must commend the show's producers for coming up with this idea and hopefully they will be instrumental in putting away these monsters. What is equally disturbing is just how many men(and women also) are engaging in this criminal activity. I would hope that greater efforts are developed to start focusing on crimes in White suburban and exurban regions. Crime in this country possess such a Black and minority aesthetic, that modern policing appears to obfuscate what occurs in these middle-class communities. I remember a Criminal Justice course I took while attending Hampton. One thing that has stayed with me since taking that course, was the section dealing with America's Police history. The Police were not created to necessarily fight crime but to protect property in response to a burgeoning Industrial Revolution. In other words, to keep undesirables away from property and (wealthy) persons. Dateline is just showing us the tip of the iceberg...this is what happens when you concentrate on suburbia....you find countless predators (doctors, teachers, rabbis) circling around these kids like bees to honey. Let's just see how long this will last and maybe we will stop seeing just the Black or Brown everyman on the cover of your local newspaper.

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