Sent by Ronald Jackson on 05-24-2010:
The New York Times Underplays WHITE Crime In Stop-And-Frisk Stories
This story offers the same old racist excuses for the siege of minority communities by NYC police. The excuse that police focus on the people who are committing the crime is proven to be both racist and ridiculous by the fact that 88% of the people stopped (again, the vast majority of whom were Blacks and Latinos) were found to be INNOCENT. Moreover, while police officers focus their racist siege on Blacks and Latinos and on Black and Latino neighborhoods, statistics suggest that more focus should be placed on stopping Whites. For example, research shows that among those who are getting "stopped and frisked" by police officers, 1.5% of Latinos, 1.6% of Blacks and 2.2% of Whites had illegal contraband. Furthermore, among those "stopped and frisked" by police officers, 1.1% of the Blacks, 1.4% of Latinos, & 1.7% of Whites had weapons on them.
So, we can come to several conclusions based on this article and the other research I've presented: 1) Police are lying when they say there are no quotas when it comes to issuing summonses, making arrests, "stopping and frisking," etc. 2) White and Black communities are policed differently: Black and Latino communities are placed under siege and White communities are not, 3) The Black and Latinos communities are placed under a North Korean-like police state which results in millions of innocent Blacks and Latinos getting "stopped and frisked" by police officers, 4) The "stop and frisked" policy is outright racial profiling in that the vast majority of those stopped are Black and Latinos, 5) The idea that "guilty" or "criminal people" are being stopped is nonsense since so few people end up with any charges after they are "stopped and frisked", 6) It is pure myth making to argue that the "crime ridden communities" or "criminal people" get the state-of-siege treatment since research demonstrates that Whites are more likely to be carrying illegal contraband or guns than either Blacks or Latinos. Go to a White community and search every other teenager and what do you think you will find in their pockets? But that isn't done, instead police come to Black communities to boost their arrest and ticketing numbers solely for the purpose of furthering their careers. The result is more Blacks and Latinos than Whites getting arrested, getting drivers licenses suspended, getting tickets for loitering, jay walking, and drinking, and getting prison terms placed on their records for a lifetime.
In the Final Analysis, the quota system and the "stop and frisk" policy of the New York City Police Department is pure racism. In a six-year period, 2.7 MILLION people were "stopped and frisked" by police officers. Of those who were stopped, 82% were Blacks and Latinos. THE TACTICS AND STRATEGIES FOR POLICING IN NEW YORK CITY ARE RACIST. The demographics for "stop and frisk" can be found here and here.
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