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Why is it that the Tru TV videos of crime or car chases show blacks and mexicans being the perpetrator?

Before you scream "racist" be honest with yourself. Are these people being unfairly portrayed or is it that these ppl really commit the majority of crime?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They're the ones who commit the most property and violent crimes. Whites commit the most white collar crime in the US but that's not really made for television.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hmm..don't really watch Tru TV (wa Court TV before right?), but they're just doing their job. I don't think anything of it really, and I'm sure the cops don't either. Besides, I rarely saw Mexicans on Tru TV shows that are similar to Cops. It was either a black or white person, no Mexican. So your generalization about them committing majority of the crime is incredibly stupid, and when you majority of the crime, be specific. As if I'd expect a Mexican to be stealing billions of dollars from citizens like Bernard Madoff, etc.

    Source(s): Btw, no I'm not Mexican.
  • 1 decade ago

    My black family was just laughing about that the other day. I don't think I've seen one SINGLE White person on that show and technically white people commit more crimes...there are a lot more white people in this country than Blacks and Mexicans put together... you would think they would show them once in a while.

    But like others have said I think its because of the particular area the cops they're filming deal with. Its probably a highly Black/Mexican populated area.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it depends on the area. usually these cops are in bad neighborhoods populated mostly by black and brown americans. So in a way yes they maybe trying to perpetuate colored people badly by purposely filming in a brown or black neighborhood. Although in that area because they make up the majority they commit the majority of crimes. Any wise person would know that in a mainly white neighborhood would have mainly white crime doers.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well a lot of crime is committed in poverty-stricken areas, which sadly, are inhabited by mostly minorities.

    Those videos are real depictions of what goes on in those areas, but the only problem I see with them is that they fail to tell you that most blacks and mexicans are NOT like that.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Maybe it's just filmed in an area with alot of people of those races, thus making more of the criminals that race by mathematics and probability laws. Or, the studio is racist.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They commit most of the crime, of course they blame their own actions on the WHite man most of the time.

    "Whitey made me do it" Tyrese testified before the court.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    blacks do commit the most crime, but statically, they don't commit the most violent crime, like sexual crimes, or crime like killing your spouse and then killing yourself, have you seen that show "snapped" it all white people.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i dont be conscious of. and how doi they take place to action picture it? are they deliberate? opr r there hidden cameras everywhere? thats creepy. while i became little, i had to wee-wee and that i went in a bush. u think of they observed that?

  • GiGi
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I think you may find some answers here:

    www.timwise.org

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