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There is a significant argument as to whether of not race should be used to try and predict the variables that will likely produce crimes. Some social scientists argue that virtually everything correlates with race {633357} and therefore the predictions are meaningless. Here, Kurtz argues that if you do not use race, since it does correlate with so much, then you might as well not try and determine the predictive factors of crime. Reality lies in the center, use race as one of the statistical variables but do not use it for profiling potential criminals and potential suspects unless there is observable and not deduced or inferred evidence of race in the crime.


When the Social Security Act was first passed, the jobs, such as housekeepers and domestic servants, and agricultural workers were not covered. This left out about two-thirds of the African Americans nationally and three-quarters of those in the South.


Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
  • Born: February 12, 1930
  • Died: October 14, 2012
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for 30 years.