Shock: Cabbies Also Do Profiling
Context: Current hoo-hah in the US over "profiling". Back on front burner after Canadians nab 17 alleged terrorists.
...the undisputed fact that in America black people proportionately commit more crimes than whites.
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According to the authors of “Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish their Customer’s Trustworthiness” (TLS, May 12), it transpires that in deciding whether to “stop for a fare,” cabbies give preference to “whites” over “blacks.” But they also select older over younger passengers; women over men; individuals over multiple passengers, wealthier over poorer; callers over hailers; and “friendly and calm over aggressive and agitated.” As it is in the taxi driver’s economic interest to refuse “as few fares as possible, they can no more be guilty of racism than they are of reverse sexism or ageism because they prefer older and female passengers,” say the authors.
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...[Bush's] security detail knows “Muslims proportionately commit more airline hijackings and suicide bombings than non-Muslims.”
http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/56/5166/2006-06-05.asp?wid=56&nid=5166
...the undisputed fact that in America black people proportionately commit more crimes than whites.
...
According to the authors of “Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish their Customer’s Trustworthiness” (TLS, May 12), it transpires that in deciding whether to “stop for a fare,” cabbies give preference to “whites” over “blacks.” But they also select older over younger passengers; women over men; individuals over multiple passengers, wealthier over poorer; callers over hailers; and “friendly and calm over aggressive and agitated.” As it is in the taxi driver’s economic interest to refuse “as few fares as possible, they can no more be guilty of racism than they are of reverse sexism or ageism because they prefer older and female passengers,” say the authors.
...
...[Bush's] security detail knows “Muslims proportionately commit more airline hijackings and suicide bombings than non-Muslims.”
http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/56/5166/2006-06-05.asp?wid=56&nid=5166
posted by Patrick Henry at 12:52
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