An individual who I’ve known for some years — and whose opinions I regard highly — posted something today that troubled me. He said he “just wants to point out that Cambridge cops have a seriously bad reputation when it comes to race.”
That statement may very well be true. The problem with it is, the “Cambridge cops” did not go to Professor Gates’s home. Sgt. James Crowley did.
Do we assume then that if the “Cambridge cops” have a race problem, that Sgt. Crowley has a race problem?
That sounds like profiling to me.