Cambridge Cop Accused of Bias Twice Before

(AP)  A white police sergeant whose arrest of a black Harvard professor ignited a national furor over race relations was twice before accused of racial bias, but cleared in both cases, according to internal affairs files released Wednesday.

Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr., for disorderly conduct at his home last month while investigating a possible burglary. The charge was dropped, and Gates alleged he was a victim of racial profiling.

The files were released in response to public records requests by The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. Of the eight citizen complaints filed against Crowley during his 11 years on the force, two involved black males alleging racial bias, according to the records. He was cleared in all eight cases.

In a 1999 complaint, two black men in a car whose driver was ticketed for offenses including driving the wrong way down a one-way street said Crowley referred to a passenger as a "homeboy."

Another black driver complained in 2003 after he and a friend were detained by Crowley and other officers because they supposedly resembled suspects in a video store robbery.

The driver, whose name was redacted, wrote he was "especially concerned by the lack of restraint the officers demonstrated in this situation."

"I am curious if the description of 'Black Male' immediately suspends the rights of all brown skinned individuals within a 10-block radius," he wrote.

The other complaints included allegations that Crowley was rude to motorists he ticketed.

In a letter released with Crowley's internal affairs files, Police Commissioner Robert Haas wrote that the eight complaints stemmed from fewer than 1 percent of the cases in which Crowley has been involved. Those cases include 422 arrests and 1,866 citations, Haas said.

[ikeziskash]

Liberal CBS scrambles to check its politically correct manual on how to handle the story and then does so. White guy wrong and must be smeared. Next story.

[mysticorca]

This story is over!

[pw08-2009]

Wow, Bias...of course none of us have any bias and of course no one in any high position (Sodemeyer) has any bias...

[hologram5]

by ___One-American____ August 19, 2009 9:39 PM EDT
"Profiling" cops, are we?

Maybe you feel angry at the police for all the run-ins with the law you've had.

You Liberals just don't see your own stupidity, do you?
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Pretty funny how the "Ignorant" throw words like liberal around when the term does not apply here at all. Get a dictionary.

[Sloughfoot]

Sit down and have a beer with'm and it's all smoothed over, yeah right! Why is the track record of this Gates character's hate mongrelling and vile character assassinations of any non-black he has had a difference with being kept so quiet. Wouldn't be cause he's cut from the same cloth as Wright and a soul bro of the half-white, half-wit we have in the oval office?

[me_n_my_angel]

If you don't follow directions, instructions, orders of the police when they are "doing their job" then you deserve to and should be arrested. It doesn't matter what color or nationality you are. This whole situation could have been so much easier if Gates had just told the officer who he was, provided identification and been glad that the police were protecting his property. He should be thankful that they even showed up in the first place! When my house was burglarized, my neighbor called the police (via 911), and it took them three hours to respond...robbers long gone with my stuff. So Mr. Gates stop crying about how they profiled you...they didn't...they were doing their job. You on the other hand brought this upon yourself because you refused to provide identification to show you were the homeowner! You say you are educated...however, your actions don't support that...

[2ears1mouth]

When I was a 20 year old in college, I was walking down the street in my college town. I passed a PA state trooper with 2 officers inside their cruiser and they immediately looked down at their dashboard. Next thing I know they pull in front of me and leave their cruiser and approach my from both left and right sides and asked me to produce some ID. At the time I didn't have my matric card so they put me in the cruiser taking me to my apartment to get my ID. When the trooper and I got out he asked my how tall I was and when I told him he said I wasn't tall enough and they left. Two days later I'm walking down the same street with a girlfriend telling her about the incident when a local police officer drives past us and stops his cruiser and approaches us and begins asking questions. I got a little smart with him and told him I had already gone through this earlier in the week with 2 state troopers and stop bothering me. He then said don't do anything to have me pull my gun. I stopped dead in my tracks. So I asked him why I am being stopped. He showed me a Xerox of a guy who escaped from a nearby prison (maybe 30 miles away) and this guy looked like a mirror image of me. So I saw why I was stopped. I wasn't angry because they were doing their job, professinally. But 2 things I learned, these cops have a quick sense of recognition and always carry ID. I'm black. A true story.

[timing20002000]

You can act like a jer in your own home and your own property without being arrested. The officer overreacted. Yes, the Professor was using the race card and acting like a jerk, but common on. He was at his own home.

[DaVicar5]

People abuse young children "in their home" . . . does that make it allright, or just nobody's business?

[TheMasses2016]

The race card is always a winner in Poker.

[spudder8]

It used to be the angry white man, now that is being taken over by the angry black man resting his laurels on what happened 150 yrs ago, that?s what I call hanging on at great lengths, yet it works among the liberal left who are anxious to give away the company store as if it were to buy away the troubles. Take this money and go away doesn?t work so all you angry blacks let it be known that giving you something for your great gran parents troubles will not solve your current problem. People do not get into trouble because of their color of skin, if they do then the persons who charge them should be prosecuted for racism. We need to bring this country together not by judging one because their skin color is not the same.