Sei razzista?

Racial Profiling – More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Steven E. Landsburg

***

Punti chiave: Non è facile essere razzisti – Chi è razionale non puo’ essere razzista – Il test del posto di blocco – 

***

Yellow highlight | Page: 192
Blacks were three-and-a-half times as likely as whites to be stopped and searched.

Note:NERI AL POSTO DI BLOCCO

Yellow highlight | Page: 192
Let’s look at the evidence. Among whites who were stopped, about one-third of one percent were caught with drugs. Among blacks who were stopped, the fraction was—almost exactly the same.

Note:BECCATI CON LA ROBA… NUMERI

Yellow highlight | Page: 192
blacks carried drugs just as frequently as whites even though they were three-and-a-half times as likely to be stopped.

Note:INCENTIVI

Yellow highlight | Page: 192
blacks had a much greater propensity than whites to carry drugs

Note:INCLINAZIONE

Yellow highlight | Page: 192
Another correct conclusion is that the police had no particular animus toward black people.

Note:ZERO RAZZISMO

Yellow highlight | Page: 193
If the police actually bore some animus toward blacks, you’d expect them to go further—cracking down on blacks to the point where very few blacks would dare to carry drugs. Then we’d see a lower conviction rate for blacks

Note:IL POLIZIOTTO RAZZISTA

Yellow highlight | Page: 193
By that standard, it’s not blacks but Hispanics who have cause for complaint.

Note:RAZZISMO VS GLI ISPANICI. TROPPI BLOCCHI RISPETTO ALLA PROB. DI ARRESTO

Yellow highlight | Page: 193
If, like me, you consider the Drug War a moral outrage, you’ll be distressed to learn that the police are maximizing drug convictions.

Note:PECCATO CHE LA POLIZIA NON SIA RAZZISTA

Yellow highlight | Page: 194
If you really want to retard drug traffic, you should maximize not convictions, but deterrence.

Note:MAX ARRESTI E MAX DETERRENZA

Yellow highlight | Page: 194
you should probably stop more whites, because there are more whites in the population to deter.

Note:POPOLAZIONE DEI BIANCHI E DEI NERI

Yellow highlight | Page: 194
After all, one-third of one percent of whites represents a lot more motorists—and a lot more drugs—than one-third of one percent of blacks.

Note:LA DETERRENZA SU BIANCHI E NERI È LA STESSA MA I BIANCHI SONO DI PIÙ

Yellow highlight | Page: 194
fewer arrests (to appeal to the libertarians) and greater deterrence

Note:MENO ARRESTI MA PIÙ DETERRENZA

Yellow highlight | Page: 194
Racist police would have stopped even more blacks; police who cared about deterrence (as opposed to convictions) would have stopped more whites.

CONCLUSIONI