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Diversity and Police Abuse

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The Gates case raises an interesting issue no one wants to discuss.  It causes too much cognitive conflict. We are told that we need "diverse" police forces so badly - even if this means discriminating against whites - because more divesity means less police abuse.  It means blacks won't be discriminated against - presumably because.... Well, I don't know why and have never seen any empirical support for the argument.  Yet we are also being told that the police discriminated against Gates.  Racism!  Racial profiling!Watch those two worlds collide.  Show this picture to your friends.  Watch cognitive dissonance in action:

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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