Mad props to fellow Anthropolitician Brian Lande (socdeputy to ya’ll) who, along with some former colleagues of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, spoke out on KGO-TV (that’s ABC channel 7, to y’all in the Bay Area) against the systematic racial profiling practices that have become part of the department’s habitus…
You can see the full video after the break
An article in Time Magazine reviews the practice of siting people for using offensive language and gestures towards police officers. It is a nice and more general followup to the issues surrounding the arrest of Henry Gates.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1923125,00.html
A funny video that probably summarizes how most cops are responding to the Gates fiasco.
I know I had the gut reaction of, “They [the public, the media, academics, pick your filler] don’t know what it is like to do my job! But everyone thinks they can do cop work better than cops!”
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