You don't have to be black to be profiled in this country
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Friday, August 22, 2025 00:02
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
so tell me, because sometimes I think I miss some of the meanings in the way you guys speak, does not having a vacation mean you haven't had a break from work, or you haven't gone away from your house?
I take it to mean that one hasn't been out of town and away from home / work for more than a long weekend. There are such things as ' stay-cations ', where you go hotel it up for a few days , relatively close to your home, and partake of activities of a touristy nature.
It's actually been several years since I myself has had a proper vacation, but I've just not been drawn to go see any particular place as of late.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
... even tho I thought a few were unfair.
Once again, PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Like I said he's only had three tickets the entire time we've been married. He usually drives like an old man. It's that he's a big angry lookin' dude driving country roads at night. I have no problem with patrolling or speed enforcement, but getting pulled over every other time you leave the house IS harassment. And if we said anything about it, it would just make it worse.
Welcome to America. Land of the micromanaged.
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I think perhaps in WISH'S case it may mean more than that.
I also have not had a proper vacation in more than 20 years ... that means, taking more than a day off from work and doing something different than the endless grind. In the past three decades, every time I've traveled it's been back east for "family business" ... mainly to help out big sis, who was caring for mom.
But there are various gradations of "endless grind", because some grinds are so much worse than others. There were a couple of years that were absolutely hellacious ... in addition to our daughter's neurological deterioration into seizure-related dementia, hubby was dx with prostate cancer after years-long struggle with intractable Meniere's and prostate problems, and MIL was dying of cancer in our home. Not only was I incredibly short of sleep all the time from working a full-time job, taking the "early morning" shift with MIL, and preparing the specialized food our daughter required for the ketogenic diet (which one a desperate shot at reducing her seizures), I was emotionally wrung out from being unable to help those I love in any effective manner. If I were to add unrelenting pain on top of that, I don't know what I would have done.
Like I said, some grinds are worse than others.
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Originally posted by Wishimay:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
... even tho I thought a few were unfair.
Once again, PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Like I said he's only had three tickets the entire time we've been married. He usually drives like an old man. It's that he's a big angry lookin' dude driving country roads at night. I have no problem with patrolling or speed enforcement, but getting pulled over every other time you leave the house IS harassment. And if we said anything about it, it would just make it worse.
Welcome to America. Land of the micromanaged.
I wonder if you're angry because you're in pain and nobody is giving you or your family any breaks; and what you're really looking for might not so much be "Leave me the fuck alone" as "Please give me some relief".
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A brief history on the matter...
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The first offender profile was assembled by detectives of the Metropolitan Police on the personality of Jack the Ripper, a serial killer who had murdered a series of prostitutes in the 1880s. Police surgeon Thomas Bond was asked to give his opinion on the extent of the murderer's surgical skill and knowledge.[11] Bond's assessment was based on his own examination of the most extensively mutilated victim and the post mortem notes from the four previous canonical murders.[12]
In his notes, dated November 10, 1888, he mentioned the sexual nature of the murders coupled with elements of apparent misogyny and rage. Dr. Bond also tried to reconstruct the murder and interpret the behavior pattern of the offender: soon he came up with a profile or signature personality traits of the offender to assist police investigation.
The profile said that five murders of seven in the area at the time the report was written had been committed by one person alone who was physically strong, composed, and daring. The unknown offender would be quiet and harmless in appearance, possibly middle-aged, and neatly attired, probably wearing a cloak to hide the bloody effects of his attacks out in the open. He would be a loner, without a real occupation, eccentric, and mentally unstable. He might even suffer from a condition called Satyriasis, a sexual deviancy that is today referred to as hypersexuality or promiscuity. Bond also mentioned that he believed the offender had no anatomical knowledge and could not be a surgeon or butcher. Bond's basic profile was:
“The murderer must have been a man of physical strength and great coolness and daring... subject to periodic attacks of homicidal and erotic mania. The characters of the mutilations indicate that the man may be in a condition sexually, that may be called Satyriasis”[13]
In 1912, a psychologist in Lackawanna, New York delivered in lecture in which he analyzed an unknown criminal who was suspected of having murdered a local boy named Joey Joseph. Based on the postcards which had been used to taunt the Lackawanna Police and the Joseph family, the profile ultimately led to the arrest and conviction of J. Frank Hickey.[14]
A version of profiling is thought to have been used in the 1940s, when investigations relied on mental health professionals to create a profile of an offender in order to aid the police investigation.[15] Soon after, as discussed below, James Brussel was called upon to analyze the information on the Mad Bomber in New York City, and he created an accurate profile of the offender. This caught the attention of the FBI, who then worked to develop a technique for profiling, based on the process used by Brussel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offender_profiling#History
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There were a couple of years that were absolutely hellacious ...
If I were to add unrelenting pain on top of that, I don't know what I would have done.
Careful, you're getting awful close to being called a whiner
Pay attention Rappy, this is how it's done
"I'm sorry you had to go through all that. They say life isn't fair, and that's fine, but sometimes dealing with the actual staggering inequities of life is just too damn much. I hope things get much better"
See? That didn't cost a thing. I didn't have to get involved in her life, or make a big deal. You say something nice and then move on, because it's something you CAN DO. You don't call someone a whiner, because it just shows YOUR insecurities in dealing with....ANYTHING, really.
My problem is, and always has been...I'm "Type A" My brain literally isn't equipped to deal with what I've been given. Just from being sick from last month I feel like I have PTSD, when I KNOW I should just be thankful I'm better and be able to move on... I CAN'T. I'm still unrelentingly angry for all these OTHER health problems, and even angrier no one has really heard of them
(which is the REAL reason I even brought them up after EIGHT YEARS of being on this site, not because I am looking for sympathy- you all should know I set no store by humanity by now...),
and that there is no hope of them ever being fixed.
I've got a life sentence to a slow death. If you figure out how to deal with that that, let me know, because it IS and always will be UNACCEPTABLE.
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What you're " dealing with " personally, physically, has nothing to do with why the cops , who have nothing else better to do, keep pulling over hubby.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
... why the cops
Okay, you wanna go back to why cops do asinine things that you don't think they do?
Sure.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025616/Stephanie-Fragoso-gets
-200-ticket-NHP-putting-lip-balm-crackdown-distracted-driving.html
This chick was putting on CHAPSTICK at a STOPLIGHT. You and MD probably think that she really really deserved a $200 ticket, 'cuz cops NEVER overreach??
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