Cop-watchers look for racial profiling on the streets of Phoenix

The new immigration law in Arizona has many people watching cops. They believe that racial profiling is already taking place and the this law will give cops even more reason to do so. This law begins in August and it will require every immigrant to carry proof that they are legal. It also will make it illegal to live in Arizona and travel through Arizona illegally. The police will not legally be able confront someone illegal about being an immigrant, they must have a different reason before they can ask for the papers. There are some people who believe that the police racial profile. These people essentially follow cops around, watching what they are doing. The followers will watch the cop pull somebody over, they will record this and take notes on it as well. After the matter, they may follow the vehicle that was pulled over and ask them why the cop pulled them over etc.


I feel like this entire situation dealing with this new immigration law is a bit of a mess. It is a very tricky situation to try to determine if someone is racial profiling or not. I think it is a good thing that they have to have a reason to pull someone over before they can ask them if they are an illegal immigrant, however I don't think it would be that hard for an officer to find a reason. It might be a good idea to have the officers take some sort of test, if any such thing exists, that determines if they judge by race, or things like that. It is good that people are monitoring the cops, but it seems like the people who are monitoring the cops are immigrants themselves, which create a large bias with the situation. I don't see why they don't get the government in there to monitor what is going on.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/11/phoenix.copwatch.arpaio/index.html

Obama vows 'relentless' response to oil spill

President Obama has resently said that he doing everything in his power to deal with the recent oil spill. He met with officials involved in the clean-up of the spill in southeastern Louisiana. He said that the clean up will most likely take many days even with the best technology. Interior secretary Ken Salazar says that the spill may take weeks to get under control and that we should prepare for the worst. BP owned that well and is responisble for all the consequences of the spill. They are building a system to prevent leaking from spreading but it will be another 6-8 days to be put into affect. There are many people who are concerned with the long term results of the spill.

I think this whole deal is not okay. I am not completly sure how it happened in the first place. No matter how it happend, there should have been many safety and security levels that the rigs should have to go through. Something like this should never happen. There are already many obvious short term effects of the spill. Not to mention all of the long term effects that are bound to occur. Again, I don't see how something like this could have happend. I feel like something like this is preventable, but I am not familiar with the process so I could be wrong. I think it is better to be safe then sorry, instead of the situation that we are in now.. not safe and very sorry.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/02/louisiana.oil.spill/index.html

Obama addressing the issue in video :http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/05/02/sot.obama.louisiana.oil.cnn