NYcarbineer
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The following is from the recent Heather Mac Donald article which I recommend for reading:
"The New York Timess front page story this week on the New York Police Department and its allegedly racist stop-and-frisk practices follows a well-worn template: give specific racial breakdowns for every aspect of police behavior, but refer to racial crime rates only in the most attenuated of terms. Disclosing crime ratesthe proper benchmark against which police behavior must be measuredwould demolish a cornerstone of the Timess worldview: that the New York Police Department, like police departments across America, oppresses the citys black population with unjustified racial tactics.
This weeks story, written by Al Baker, began with what the Times thinks is a shocking disparity: Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested. (The fact that blacks, Hispanics, and whites are arrested at the same rate after a stop undercuts, rather than supports, the thesis of racially biased policing, but more on that later.)
The Timess story includes a graphic breakdown of police stops by race: blacks made up 55 percent of all stops in 2009, though theyre only 23 percent of the citys population; whites accounted for 10 percent of all stops, though theyre 35 percent of the citys population; Hispanics made up 32 percent of all stops, though 28 percent of the population, and Asians, 3 percent of all stops and 12 percent of the population. The article details a host of other police actions by specific racial numbers, including arrests, frisks, and use of force.
Here are the crime data that the Times doesnt want its readers to know: blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009 (though they were only 55 percent of all stops and only 23 percent of the citys population). Blacks committed 80 percent of all shootings in the first half of 2009. Together, blacks and Hispanics committed 98 percent of all shootings. Blacks committed nearly 70 percent of all robberies. Whites, by contrast, committed 5 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009, though they are 35 percent of the citys population (and were 10 percent of all stops). They committed 1.8 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies. The face of violent crime in New York, in other words, like in every other large American city, is almost exclusively black and brown. Any given violent crime is 13 times more likely to be committed by a black than by a white perpetratora fact that would have been useful to include in the Timess lead, which stated that Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped. These crime data are not some artifact that the police devise out of their skewed racial mindset. They are what the victims of those crimesthe vast majority of whom are minority themselvesreport to the police.
Given the vast disproportion in the citys crime rates, you can either have policing that goes after crime and saves minority lives, or you can have policing that mirrors the citys census data. You cannot have both."
Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 14 May 2010
The percent of crime that is committed by persons who happen to fit your demographic is in no way a justification for violating your rights.
If you want racial profiling, amend the Constitution to allow it. Problem solved.
Equal protection is provided by the stop and frisk program.
It is typical liberal pap to claim other than that.
Conservatives believe that data should inform policy while liberals believe that feeling is as good as knowing. This is a perfect example of the difference.
When victims identify perps as black or hispanic, that is the description of individuals who should be stopped and questioned.. Problem solved.
Were you appointed or elected to speak for all conservatives and liberals?