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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Would John Muhammed and John Malvo be considered serial killers? Also, I had never heard of Williams before, I had thought that all serial killers (before the two Johns) had been white.
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Excellent example Alan of an instance where racial profiling hampered an investigation and resulted in the deaths of several more people (they didn't think they were black). As a whole this is a concept we've previously killed here:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=78687 killed it dead.
It turns out MarvMarv that the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Andrew Sullivan have all protested exactly the type of racial profiling you mention above. I'm guessing though these aren't groups you keep close tabs on.
In any case a falsified and discredited article, like the one that begins this thread, doesn't seem like a very solid jumping off point for any meaningful discussion or debate.