Talk:Perp walk
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Please try to keep your one-sided biases out of this article (and all Wikipedia articles) when editing. The intention here-- as with all Wikipedia articles-- is simply to define and explain the item, issue or practice.
Your personal opinions and unsupported assertions about the right or wrong of perp walks, or police motivations behind them, are not relevant or appropriate here, unless 1) you are a credentialed expert, and 2) you have provided citations for your assertions.
Bias is not necessarily a bad thing, but in an objective encyclopedia article (as opposed to an editorial page-- which Wikipedia isn't) it has to be clearly identified as such. Carelessly inserting your own particular cause or opinion into an otherwise objective article is not only a disservice to other users, but may also ultimately damage the cause you believe you are promoting! Please insert biased viewpoints and details carefully, with appropriate attention to their context to the overall intent of the article. For example, insert a section titled "Controversies regarding (Topic)" or similar.
Of course, police certainly perpetrate injustices against innocent people every day, and everyone reading or editing here probably has an example to share. But don't dump your pet peeve or cause here. There are plenty of articles and forums elsewhere to discuss this kind of thing. Go find one.
Remember, even the courts are split on whether this is 'fair', so let's not try to solve the issue by ranting. The first step is just explaining the issue clearly-- and further steps aren't appropriate here.
Thanks, all, for remembering what we're doing here.
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh received a particularly notorious perp walk, in which he was paraded before television cameras (by a group of a dozen FBI agents who had been selected for the "honor"), nearly three hours before he was officially arrested for the bombing
How on earth was he in FBI custody and on a 'perp walk' BEFORE being "officialy arrested", whatever that means? I believe the writer means before he was formally CHARGED for the offence/s....as he was "officially arrested" by a State Trooper for a firearms violation prior to entering FBI custody... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.29.29 (talk) 03:49, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
