Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates arrested after police mistake him for a burglar

<p>A very small amount of sensitivity training would reveal to any police officer who routinely is involved in asking people to do something they don’t want to do is that: (1) Most honest people get very irritated when you don’t believe them; (2) Most people might feel that a cop walking into their home and accusing them of trespass seem like a violation of privacy; (3) an African American Man might have a hightened sense of sensitity to and be offended by the thought that he had been profiled; (4) A Harvard Professor might be incensed that he was being rudely treated at his own home. Regardless of whether Gates was angry, or insulting, the job of the Officer is to diffuse a situation where he made a mistake and call it a day. “Contempt of Cop” charges were simply ego talking.</p>