Heather MacDonald
Heather MacDonald
Heather Lynn Mac Donaldis an American political commentator and journalist described as a secular conservative. She has advocated positions on numerous subjects including victimization, philanthropy, immigration reform, crime prevention, racism, racial profiling, rape, politics, welfare, and matters pertaining to cities and academia. She is a John M. Olin Fellow of the Manhattan Institute. In addition, she is a contributing editor to New York's City Journal, and a lawyer by training. She has written numerous editorials and is the author of...
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If you're working in a high-crime neighborhood, and you see a person on a street corner hitching his belt up in a way that he would if he were concealing a handgun, you would want to examine that situation more closely. Or if you were patrolling a known drug-sales zone at three in the morning and saw somebody on their cell phone, you would want to look into that. But if you get to the fifth or sixth situation, and everybody that you have come across to this point has been black, you're going to second-guess yourself.
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You don't want to be red-flagged for racial profiling. So you back away. The result of this is less effective policing. And this is what we see resulting from this.