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Spending the night on Lyndhurst Street
By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2005 - 5:09pm
At-large city council candidate Kevin McCrea spent the night in the apartment building being re-claimed from the druggies by the Rev. Bruce Wall. He reports on how easy it was to arrange a drug deal even with all the cops and media types everywhere:
... I wanted to find out where the drugs were coming from, and so I asked a couple people whom I thought were likely selling drugs and sure enough, in a few minutes time I had two guys competing for my drug sale. ... The hispanic guy told me that I could get whatever I wanted, that the woman gets everything delivered to her and I could have it there in now time. The black guy kept saying he could deliver the product quicker, he was just up the street. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I only had $10 bucks on me. ... You know you have a drug problem when a white guy in a black neighborhood can get whatever he wants on a street where its been publicly announced that there is going to be a neighborhood watch and an increased police presence.
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Comments
racial profiling
I wonder if by "white guy in a black neighborhood" the candidate means to endorse racial profiling by neighborhood. Does he endorse the cops' stopping every white guy in that area in the nighttime? Would he endorse the cops' stopping every black guy in, say, Beacon Hill in the nighttime?
If he supports that kind of reality-based policework, I can tell you one thing: he'd have my vote.
racial profiling
I think the cadidate is implying that dealers in minority neighborhoods have a rep for profiling white people, meaning the candidate was surprised that none of the drug dealers suspected him as a narc, despite all the recent attention.
You'd support cops frisking
You'd support cops frisking any black guys they see on Beacon Hill? I hope that you were being sarcastic...
Not exactly...
The candidate implied that the white guys in the black neighborhood were a sign of criminality afoot. I wasn't sure if that's what he meant. If it is what he meant, he was being practical, realistic, and honest.
In other words, the candidate was profiling white guys. I equated that to profiling black guys. The white guy in the black drug neighborhood at night is probably up to no good. The black guy in the white rich neighborhood at night is probably up to no good.
If it's OK to profile one, it's OK to profile the other. I respect and admire that kind of honesty in politics. It's rare. In fact, it's so rare that I doubt it's what he meant.