Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat, wants to free the police from the constraints of having to randomly search old white women in trying to protect from Islamic terrorists.
Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat, says the NYPD’s new policy of randomly checking bags at subway entrances may be politically correct, but it won’t make passengers safer.
Hikind said police should focus on young Middle Easterners called … it - insane - to look for bombs in the bags of 75-year-old grandmothers.
Racial profiling is illegal, but Hikind says he will introduce legislation to remove that prohibition.
There’s quite a mixed (yet for the most part, predictable) reaction to this one.
Newshounds calls it the “new black.”
But Publius Rendezvous says “it’s about time!”
Etc echoes with “Finally!”
Clayton says the need for this is obvious unless you are hopelessly stupid.
Charles Krauthammer makes the point in his column from a few days ago.
The American response to tightening up after London has been reflexive and idiotic: random bag checks in the New York subways. Random meaning that the people stopped are to be chosen numerically. One in every five or 10 or 20.
This is an obvious absurdity and everyone knows it. It recapitulates the appalling waste of effort and resources we see at airports every day when, for reasons of political correctness, 83-year-old grandmothers from Poughkeepsie are required to remove their shoes in the search for jihadists hungering for paradise.
Craig however, seems to think that lots of old white ladies might be terrorists.
We have had all sorts of terrorists in the country from Muslim, to black, to white Christian. We should be working to prevent an attack from them all. The only way to do this is to be honest and go after those that would harm America. Profiling just makes honest Muslims angry.
Cicero, phrased a bit differently, thinks he is courageous.
The Town Crier thinks this makes Jews look racist and offers a sort of apology.
Drifty the Gypsy says Dov is a “politician who gets it.”
It Affects You argues:
I wonder how long the “75 year old granny” red herring will last. What about 74 year olds? What abotu 75 year old women who don’t happen to have any children? Do we need to wait for the first terrorist to slip an 80-year-old a birthday present?
What’s next? Searching Girl Scouts is insane… ALL terrorists are mid-twenties and Arab-looking, of course. Makes a good soundbyte; makes a lousy analogy.
Jonathan at GOP Bloggers says “a democrat with common sense.”
aDrake sensitively notes: “Patterns are patter[n]s, too bad if it’s your race.”
Geeks for Liberty gets creative with his post title.
Mike in the UK rants:
we’ll bend over backwards to accommodate a bunch of murderous killers, because we mustn’t be nasty to our “Muslim” brothers!
Eric at God, Guns and Glory points out that being “politically correct could cost lives.”
Russ’ Back Page blissfully recites “Hate has no boundaries or color lines” after pointing out that Muslim men didn’t do Columbine.
The author of rith se liom thinks that terrorists will be smart enough to adapt to not look like terrorists.
Dan Wismar thinks the anti-reactions are insulting to Arabs:
just as insulting to all those innocent dark-skinned males who would be momentarily inconvenienced by an inspector or security guard is the suggestion that they wouldn’t understand that they were singled out because in some way they physically resemble the people who have been blowing up innocent civilians, or the suggestion that they wouldn’t handle the inconvenience with the same grace and resignation that have characterized the attitudes of most all Americans since 9/11.
Coralhei thinks that this will open the doors for personal and institutional prejudices to be acted upon.
Charlotte Times News links to this Newsmax article discussing the profiling going on on the other side of the pond, which makes an argument similar to Wismar’s Wizblog.
… innocent Muslim or Asian men would not mind being stopped if treated politely.
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