Have you followed NY even a little over the last 20 years?
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/22/2046451/white-people-stopped-by-new-york-police-are-more-likely-to-have-guns-or-drugs-than-minorities/?mobile=nc > > "During the just-concluded > trial< > http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/21/2041681/judge-ends-stop-and-frisk-trial-with-a-whole-lot-of-skepticism/ > > > on > the New York Police Departments stop-and-frisk program, the city argued > that officers disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers > was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was > doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a > different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New > Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocates > analysis< > http://advocate.nyc.gov/sites/advocate.nyc.gov/files/DeBlasioStopFriskReform.pdf > > > of > the NYPDs 2012 statistics." > > And a city that is struggling just as any other in America prefers to spend > 22 Million US Dollars to continue with racist policies that are not > working, rather than change those racist policies. Wow. Who voted for those > officials? Who's paying to settle those civil lawsuit > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363751 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
