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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does race factor into this? I see kids that age run around by themselves all the time.[/quote]

I will go ahead and say it, I think the consensus is if the children were not white (AA, Hispanic, etc) there might have been more of an acceptance that the children were unsupervised and a reluctance to call the police.  Why? Maybe  people assume the parents are working and there're is no childcare, etc and if the kids aren't hurting themselves it's ok. I live in Arlington and frequent a library that is right across the street from an elementary school.  If you go on a school day afternoon afte school there are TONS of unsupervised children in there hanging out, reading, doing homework, talking to each other.  Probably are first through fifth graders.  Then one by one you see the the parents come and pick them up, sometimes a few hours after school gets out.  The librarians don't interact with them unless they have a question. Judging by the uniforms the parents are wearing, these parents work low wage hourly jobs.  I assume they can't afford aftercare.  The library seems to condone it by allowing it.  But it would never occur to me, black, white or whatever to call the police re it.[/quote]

I agree.

I am also struck by the repeated references to "urban" areas; to "wandering around DTSS," and to "walking next to a parking garage."

The family LIVES in DTSS.  Many of us do.  It IS our neighborhood, it is where we reside.  Of course that's where the children were walking - they live there.

Why is that so hard to understand?[/quote]

I disagree. I am frequently in DTSS with Hispanic children, and annoying white people are constantly asking them "where are your parents"... um... over there... to which I wave. me... over here, I look white, it get it... they are Hispanic... please don't talk to them in Spanish... it is rude. [/quote]

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