RW>RW>Which is selective enforcement, which is saying that
RW> >you are willing to let people commit crimes in areas
RW> >but not in others.
RW>CH> But it's not selective for the sake of being selective.
RW>CH> Usually in law enforcement zt is invoked for an area that
RW>CH> has serious problems and needs cleaning up.
RW>Ah, but tell that to the civil rights people who point
RW>out that all your ZT areas are minority or low income
RW>areas.
RW>RW>Sure they do. If you catch two people doing the same
RW> >thing in two different places you treat them the both
RW> >the same. Not let a 16 y.o. kid driving the BMW in the
RW> >neighborhood where the houses cost a minimum of
RW> >$500,000 off with a "you've been a bad boy" speech when
RW> >you find a 'roach' in his car but if it is a 16 y.o.
RW> >kid walking down an ally in a public housing area with
RW> >a roach in his sock you toss him in the back of the
RW>CH> You posit and interesting example, Rich; but that is not the
RW>CH> intent of zt operations.
RW>How many time have you heard about how a lot the drug
RW>buyers are 'outsiders' who come in to the "bad
RW>neighborhoods" just to get drugs? So lets say a city
RW>councilman's kid is caught in his $60,000 BMW in your
RW>ZT area. Now is he going to get the ZT treatment that
RW>Joe Smuck in his $8,000 Yugo gets?
If Joe Shmuck is driving an $8,000 Yugo, he has already been ripped
worse than the courts could ever do to him. :^)
RD
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