I was on my computer today and got to listen to a typical dog and pony airing over the scanner.
Police dispatch received a call from a Boise truck driver that reported that there was two "suspicious acting" males and a younger female walking around in the area of Border Bobs and felt it was necessary to report this "suspicious activity" to the authorities.
At least two IFPD officers and one Sheriff's deputy responded to this suspicious activity. The area was fully investigated for a substantial period of time. Matter of fact the deputy felt that this report was dangerous in nature that it was imperative that pull over vehicles heading east that happened to have Ontario plates. After a brief interrogation the vehicle was allowed to leave.
Evidently our Border patrol thought that this atrocity of walking on the sidewalk was so dangerous that our Federal Government needed to start their own investigation and question this reporting truck driver. The results of this investigation was relayed to the deputy and I quote " there is a whole house of those people" living near McDonalds.
That was the end of this profiling episode as far as I know.
Most anyone reading this can probably figure out the race of the alleged violators and what I heard today is appalling, inappropriate and just simply should not have warranted the attention and man hours it did receive.
I bet that if these "walkers" were "white" and were older such intensity wouldn't have been used in the investigation of this alleged "suspicious" activity.
As a matter of record, I am not native American, a term that was used frequently during this dog and pony show.
In conclusion, the truck driver should stick to his profession and quit stirring up trouble out of boredom and the law enforcement personal involved should expend this much effort solving some of the many open crimes in our area and a little less time on the allegations of a "truck driver". Maybe a little bit of sensitivity training is in order.
Doe's this sound a little like profiling to you?
