Stereotypes Found In Police Training Documents
According to lawyers who have filed a lawsuit in Baltimore County Circuit Court against the Maryland State Police, some of their training documents contain inexcusable racial stereotypes about Hispanic people.
One of the documents in question reportedly says that “Hispanics generally do not hold their alcohol well. They tend to drink too much and this leads to fights.” The document apparently also notes that Hispanic men are raised to be “macho and brave”, but that hispanic females are trained to be “subservient”.
Other racial stereotypes said to be included in the police training documents include that Hispanics are reluctant to learn English and that their weapon of choice is a knife.
The head attorney for the Maryland State Police says that the documents in question were not part of the formal training manual for police officers and that there is no evidence that this material was ever given to the state troopers in Maryland.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
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