When the professor became a suspect on Centre Street in JP

Yes, because because all republicans are evil people. Democrats are just sweet, delicate little flowers who want to sit in their safe spaces and eat happiness cake all day.

How is it racial if the suspect they were looking for is black? Should they stop a few whites guys just to make the PC babies feel a little better?

Those confusingly polite racists cops will trick ya everytime, huh Adam?

A story that sticks out in my mind goes as follows: I went to a bank robbery in the spring about 5 minutes after it happened. The bank had just locked the doors when the robber left, and we were about to conduct interviews with witnesses that were in the bank when the robber passed a note. The robber (as seen on the film) was a light skinned hispanic male who was bald wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. A black female witness who was right behind the man stated that he was a black male with dreadlocks wearing a red sweatshirt. When we asked her if she got a good look at him, she said she looked him right in the eyes when he left and saw him drop the note, and the video later confirmed that. Most of the other bank tellers were close in describing the man, although one of them said he was a young white kid with short blonde/brown hair. Long story short, descriptions by witnesses are not always accurate, and a good police officer should know that and do their job seeing if anyone in the area even matches that description.

Bank robbers and home burglars will also often take off layers of clothing and throw them somewhere during their escape, especially if their crime is interrupted and someone saw them.

Why the long wait? Sometimes you want to bring the witness around for a live showup, and when you do that, you need to read them a statement before you do that showup. That often takes time as well.

Also very common for thieves who commit thefts (mostly daytime office/hospital thefts) to wear official looking lanyards and IDs that are sometimes stolen/expired

I think it would be interesting if a city decided to just have all black cops. I really think that would be a good idea actually, and studies would probably be very valuable for everyone involved. (In my opinion, black cops would have done the same thing)

See my comment above. You were, I am pretty sure, a Uhub member the last time I described my experience being stopped by the police while waiting for the bus. They were looking for someone seen making fake 911 calls. I was the wrong height, wrong weight, wrong hair length, wrong age. The police still detained me for about a half hour and went through my stuff before letting me go.

It was scary as hell, and I totally sympathize with Prof. Locke. But taken by itself, his account is not an example of racial bias in Boston policing.

Sorry to hear my man. It's truly pathetic I agree. Thank you for putting your life on the line.

Sincerely,

Conservative Republican

he thought he was going to die?

i mean, its pretty terrifying to me that youre supposed to be protecting people and your mentality is:

"America is doomed. White, Black, Latino, Gay, Straight, it doesn't matter - we are doomed. That's what I've learned on the streets."

i mean fuck it, if thats how you feel maybe people should just start offing your coworkers as soon as they approach us and take the law into our own hands. instead of police stations we'll have public armories. i won't need a team of badges to protect me, just as many rounds as I can fit in my magazine. the one in the chamber can be the chief.