Don, go back and read. The postulate was not that the police needed to be wary of all. It was that the police are wary of YOU because they met someone like you before. That's not judging you, it's assuming that you are like that other person - be he a Jew, or an Afro-Caribbean, or an Irishman.

Al, watch the video and hunt down some reports of the trial.

Both of you, go to a gathering where there are police at play - it's horrifying.

Incidentally, I once was invited to an Irish republican concert - and warned in advance to stand for the IRA anthem (the name of which escapes me) and not to be heard talking in RP or I would not get out alive. I heard the signer's husband say (to my very party, at my very table) "She was singing flat tonight. I'll take her home and give her a good beating and it won't happen again". Tell me Don, were your family antecedents like that and should I assume that I must not talk to any Irishman or be killed?