You know how gangs of thieves are stripping store shelves bare in San Francisco? Well, whatever you do, don’t call that “looting!” According to a retired police officer and Professor of Criminal Justice and Community Policing at the University of New Haven, “’Looting’ is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something. We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.”
You know, it’s funny, but when I hear the term “looter,” I just picture people who smash windows and steal armloads of other people’s property. I don’t picture urban people of color. Seems to me that if you automatically associate looting with people of color, you’re the one who has a racism issue you might want to deal with.
You know how gangs of thieves are stripping store shelves bare in San Francisco? Well, whatever you do, don’t call that “looting!” According to a retired police officer and Professor of Criminal Justice and Community Policing at the University of New Haven, “’Looting’ is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something. We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.”
You know, it’s funny, but when I hear the term “looter,” I just picture people who smash windows and steal armloads of other people’s property. I don’t picture urban people of color. Seems to me that if you automatically associate looting with people of color, you’re the one who has a racism issue you might want to deal with.
You know how gangs of thieves are stripping store shelves bare in San Francisco? Well, whatever you do, don’t call that “looting!” According to a retired police officer and Professor of Criminal Justice and Community Policing at the University of New Haven, “’Looting’ is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something. We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.”
You know, it’s funny, but when I hear the term “looter,” I just picture people who smash windows and steal armloads of other people’s property. I don’t picture urban people of color. Seems to me that if you automatically associate looting with people of color, you’re the one who has a racism issue you might want to deal with.
Perhaps it should be described as an organic redistribution of wealth triggered by income inequality.
Perhaps it should be considered criminal damage to property and theft triggered by a lack of respect for themselves and all others. There’s a F’n novel idea for you.
C’mon man! How can you even suggest that? These people can’t be expected to take responsibility for their situation. You’re asking them to be responsible for their own well being? WTH kind of crazy logic is that? Self reliability and self responsibility. What a crazy concept.
You know how gangs of thieves are stripping store shelves bare in San Francisco? Well, whatever you do, don’t call that “looting!” According to a retired police officer and Professor of Criminal Justice and Community Policing at the University of New Haven, “’Looting’ is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something. We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.”
You know, it’s funny, but when I hear the term “looter,” I just picture people who smash windows and steal armloads of other people’s property. I don’t picture urban people of color. Seems to me that if you automatically associate looting with people of color, you’re the one who has a racism issue you might want to deal with.
You know how gangs of thieves are stripping store shelves bare in San Francisco? Well, whatever you do, don’t call that “looting!” According to a retired police officer and Professor of Criminal Justice and Community Policing at the University of New Haven, “’Looting’ is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something. We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.”
You know, it’s funny, but when I hear the term “looter,” I just picture people who smash windows and steal armloads of other people’s property. I don’t picture urban people of color. Seems to me that if you automatically associate looting with people of color, you’re the one who has a racism issue you might want to deal with.