I live in Atlanta and have heard all of the stories too, PinkCashmere. I think racial profiling is horrible and have (I feel) experienced it on more than one occasion. However, let's not get the two stories mixed up. Racial profiling, which I define as Police harassment simply because a person fits a particular racial 'profile' (i.e. they wuz Black!), is wrong, but so is black on black crime. When folks are partying, creating huge traffic jams (be they black or white) in Buckhead, the only folks really complaining are the ones in the neighborhood. But, when folks start shooting and stabbing like they ain't got the sense they wuz born wit', now that's a whole 'nother thing!! Outside of the random drunk person getting hit by a car (not that that's good..but you understand), there were few, if any, homicides in the Buckhead entertainment district. Then, the clubs start having urban night on Sunday night and what happens? Folks start getting shot! People do need to learn to separate the behavior of a few from the behavior of many, but let's be serious, we as Black folks need to be protesting the Black folks who think it is o.k. to shoot someone simply because they 'dissed' you in front of your girl. The shooting/stabbling is not the result of racial profiling--unless you call a black man looking for another black man to kill is racial profiling.
I would, however, be very interested to see the statistics comparing the arrests/citations of blacks to whites in that area.
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