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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (759340)12/23/2013 4:43:45 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1576965
 
Sure there's a reason ... NYC racially profiles:

... The sheer number of African Americans and Latinos stopped by NYPD alone makes the case for racial profiling. They composed 87 percent of individuals pulled aside by police in 2011. Young men of color surfaced as primary targets. Officers stopped 168,126 black males between the ages of 14 and 24. Not only is that number staggering, it’s also larger than the actual number of black males in that age group who make up New York City’s population—158,406.
One could argue that police targeted blacks and Hispanics more than whites because more crime takes place in communities of color. The New York Civil Liberties Union found, however, that even in neighborhoods where blacks and Latinos made up 14 percent or less of the population, police targeted them for 70 percent of stops.

Law-Abiding Citizens TargetedOutrage over NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program doesn’t just derive from the fact that black and Latino men have been disproportionately singled out. There’s also the fact that the overwhelming majority of people police have pulled aside did nothing wrong. Ninety percent of those stopped in 2011 were neither arrested nor summoned by police.

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