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Taking your example, it is just as likely that the "cop" would have himself been black. Your point is quite valid, of course. Enforcement, Prosecution, and Judicial Review, all need to be applied with the interest of the overall society - while remaining strictly to the law, as written. The law is supposed to be blind, in terms of its application. It may have taken some time, but almost all of society and all of the laws take the position that it is in the interest of society for the laws to be applied equally to all. Your cop, Black or White, would most likely be headed for hard times, in some fashion, from his fellow officers, his union, his supervisors, if not the Feds would be interested in the police force he works for. "Capricious whim" is certainly bad, but there are other factors that worry me more. Financial Gain, Political Gain, furtherance of an agenda, ect... Using the Law to "pick winners and loosers", to "protect an industry", to "benefit a select group", to promote Unionism, or encourage the public to engage in or support any actions/activities that claim they provide a public good. Pointing out all the recent examples would be taken as political, so I would just point out that this has been going on since before we formed this country. Our legal system makes it so that anyone suffering damages can bring a suit. We have passed too many laws that make it easier for some to do so, in some cases with very loose requirements to show any actual damage. Luck; Ken |
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Yes, I should probably have mentioned that discrimination is as likely to be practiced by minorities on 'themselves' as by others. IMO it's a cultural bias, not individual-and you're right that it is changing. Less quickly in law enforcement IMO, particularly small town law enforcement where all except egregious cases get little publicity. (In the case I remember it seems to me that one of the blacks was nationally known. A blogger, maybe? Wish I could remember more of the details. But that's why it got publicized.) And you're right, the cops do (sometimes) get into trouble over it-when it gets publicized. Too often senior cops are allowed to retire rather than being punished for wrongdoing-unless it's flagrantly criminal. As I said in the cited situation, the cop had a very believable excuse-the problem was the frequency with which that excuse was used. Discrimination which relies on a 'pattern' is much harder to prove than an individual case. It doesn't matter that 'everybody knows' it's discrimination-the problem is that 'everybody' doesn't care. Society mostly approves of discrimination-they just disapprove of publicity. Although the case I mentioned was racial there's also sexual-and that's even harder to prove. A case that I recall on that was a woman who felt threatened because her (male) boss wouldn't stop his male employees from congregating by the water cooler that was next to her desk. So she sued for sexual harassment. The men weren't doing anything, mostly they weren't even talking to her-but she felt threatened by their presence. How do you prove 'silent intimidation'? That's something cops need to be particularly aware of. There have been a few confessions thrown out because the 'perp' confessed before being given his Miranda warning. That wasn't due to interrogation, the court found that the 'perp' caved under the 'intimidating' presence of the cops. So it happens-but it can be very hard to prove whether the cops (or others) were actually trying to intimidate or whether the intimidation was self-generated. The same is true of discrimination-was the cop actually discriminating or were the victims feeling put upon simply because 'they got caught'?
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Info(prcgen):I1052: Kindle support cover images but does not support cover HTML. Hence using the cover image specified and suppressing cover HTML in content. URL: C:\Users\hwlester\AppData\Local\Temp\mbp_7DD_5_10_ 15_1E_2B_37_16A4_1AC_1\OEBPS\1-cover.xhtml I added '<reference href="cover.jpg" title="cover" type="cover"/>' in the guide section of the OPF file since it didn't have one, but that didn't seem to help. I suspect some tweaking of the EPUB will produce a cover image on the personal document, but would like for someone who does this to confirm since I'm new to the Kindle. Last edited by hwlester; 05-16-2013 at 11:05 PM. |
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Kindle formats. I have used calibre to turn personal text files into epub ebooks with covers I created in Gimp2. The Metadata editor in calibre allows you to add your own cover as well. Luck; Ken |
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Edit: On my Kindle for Android app, I also saw a generic cover, but as soon as I downloaded it, the real cover thumbnail showed up. Last edited by hwlester; 05-17-2013 at 12:25 PM. |
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