Racial Profiling?

While we’re still on the race theme, there’s been much brouhaha recently in Toronto about “racial profiling”. Kingston, ON recently did something very un-Canadian - they compiled stats by race. Now 15-24 is the most crime-prone demographic and so, controlling for age in each respective population, here's a telling graphic...


(thanks James)

And here is the most notable finding of the study (conveniently ignored by the press.)

All other racial minorities (Asians, South Asians, etc.) are less likely to be stopped by the Kingston police than whites.

Whoa… wait a sec? Asians, brown kids, Hispanics, Arabs are stopped less than Whites? (OK, selection bias here - most of the Asians/South Asians in this demograhpic are college kids at Queen’s.)

So gee, Kingston cops must be pretty racist towards white folk. Why has nobody highlighted this? Because it’s an affront to the all-cops-are-racist mythology that the media and special-interest groups like to perpetuate.

This sort of dishonesty pisses me off. So let’s call it for what it is. It's not really racial profiling. Brown guy like me isn't gonna get chased down by the Kingston popos - they're more likely to chase that white guy next to me. So what it is really is black profiling. And a bit of white profiling too.

Let's call it that.