Let’s say you’re a 25-year-old adult male living in Compton, California, and you flip burgers for a living. Then one day, after a fight with your parents or your siblings, you decide you’ve had enough of the day-to-day. You get high and no-show at work. You go on a road trip with your friends to Las Vegas for a long weekend. It’s all very fun and irresponsible behavior, and as it happens, it’s not exactly unheard of in places like Compton.
Then let’s say your boss at the burger shop notices you didn’t show up for work. And he reports you missing. Following company protocol, he calls the police, and tells them that you’re AWOL. He says he has no idea why this is happening, or what’s going on.
How should law enforcement respond in that situation?
Starting next summer, in the biggest state in the country, the answer to that question will depend on one thing: your skin color. If you’re black, the cops will respond to your boss’ call by buzzing every cell phone in the state, telling millions of people to be on the lookout for you. State authorities will plaster your name and description all over billboards on the interstate. They’ll even put you on television, in the ticker at the bottom of all the college football games. That’s if you’re black, to be clear. If you happen to be white, on the other hand, well, it’s a different story. If you’re white, the authorities will do precisely none of that. Instead, they’ll hang up the phone and tell the pizza guy he’s wasting their time.
If that sounds far-fetched, you should know that it’s not. It is, in fact, what’s coming very soon in the state of California. It’s the result of a new law that was just signed by California’s governor and future presidential candidate, Gavin Newsom. Under this law, if black people age 25 and under go missing for any reason, then law enforcement has the authority to issue something called — and I’m not making this name up — an “Ebony alert.” This is kind of like an Amber alert, but in several key respects, it’s very different.
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Then let’s say your boss at the burger shop notices you didn’t show up for work. And he reports you missing. Following company protocol, he calls the police, and tells them that you’re AWOL. He says he has no idea why this is happening, or what’s going on.
How should law enforcement respond in that situation?
Starting next summer, in the biggest state in the country, the answer to that question will depend on one thing: your skin color. If you’re black, the cops will respond to your boss’ call by buzzing every cell phone in the state, telling millions of people to be on the lookout for you. State authorities will plaster your name and description all over billboards on the interstate. They’ll even put you on television, in the ticker at the bottom of all the college football games. That’s if you’re black, to be clear. If you happen to be white, on the other hand, well, it’s a different story. If you’re white, the authorities will do precisely none of that. Instead, they’ll hang up the phone and tell the pizza guy he’s wasting their time.
If that sounds far-fetched, you should know that it’s not. It is, in fact, what’s coming very soon in the state of California. It’s the result of a new law that was just signed by California’s governor and future presidential candidate, Gavin Newsom. Under this law, if black people age 25 and under go missing for any reason, then law enforcement has the authority to issue something called — and I’m not making this name up — an “Ebony alert.” This is kind of like an Amber alert, but in several key respects, it’s very different.
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Let’s say you’re a 25-year-old adult male living in Compton, California, and you flip burgers for a living. Then one day, after a fight with your parents or your siblings, you decide you’ve had enough of the day-to-day. You get high and no-show at work. You go on a road trip with your friends to ...
