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Old 05-24-2013, 03:57 AM  
Fiddler
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Originally Posted by SilentKnight View Post
A cop I worked with a few years ago summed it up perfectly for me.

"It's not racism...or racial profiling. We call it an educated guess."

He compared it to the same logic used when shopping for apples at the local grocery. If you see a certain percentage of rotten apples displayed on top...you seldom dig to the bottom for the good ones.
No, but you also don't just assume all apples from that point forward are rotten either, otherwise the next time you returned to buy some groceries you'd forever avoid apples....
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