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Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

Ninja my point is that the most accurate way to profile people it based on geneological heritage. So black represents jamaican black, american black, british black but does not include dark skinned people geneologically outside of that trend.

Yeah, but the point of THIS thread is about FBI (cops.) Cop's don't perform DNA tests to determine how to profile someone, they look at how dark they are. My point is that melanin is the only factor relevant to police profiling. Genealogy is irrelevant.

I understand the difference between scientific data and "observed" data, I have tons and tons of scientific education. If you want to make a thread about the difference between african and aboriginal and other very dark people, i a SCIENTIFIC sense, I'd completely agree with you, but that's a completely different set of circumstances. You are ignoring context here. I agree that they are different scientifically, but not in the context of police profiling.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yeah, but the point of THIS thread is about FBI (cops.) Cop's don't perform DNA tests to determine how to profile someone, they look at how dark they are. My point is that melanin is the only factor relevant to police profiling. Genealogy is irrelevant.

But the cops should be able to pick up on other racial markers, such as facial features. They should at least be able to differentiate african-americans from others with a darker skin tone.