Esau Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities

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White People Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities

By Aviva Shen on May 22, 2013 at 12:20 pm

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During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s 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 Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.

White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.

It’s unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime. Considering one officer’s testimony that superiors explicitly directed him to target young black men, minorities are judged by a much more flexible definition of “reasonable suspicion.”

And this loose approach to the Constitution’s ban on unlawful searches and seizures is part of a larger pattern of African-Americans being targeted by police. In one incident an officer cuffed and detained a 13-year-old African American boy, the son of a former cop, for six hours because he allegedly reached into his pants’ waistband. Other cops punched and pepper-sprayed a 38-year-old veteran who was discussing Memorial Day plans with friends on a street corner. Yet another black man reported being stopped and arrested 4 times in one year on criminal trespass charges later dismissed by a judge.

In general, stop-and-frisk has proven to be remarkably ineffective; nearly 89 percent of all stops result in no charges. The city has also had to settle a surging number of civil rights lawsuits against police to the tune of $22 million in one year.

White People Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities | ThinkProgress

Surprise surprise

 

[ugksam]

yeah cause a black guy planted that shyt on em

 

[Consigliere]

This is common sense. If you want to bust drug users and dealers go to predominantly White colleges and high schools. Stop and Frisk and The War on Drugs are genocidal programs designed to further marginalize minorities.

 

[Serious]

@ Esau

 

[ineedsleep212]

How nice it feels to have real data that makes stop-and-frisk advocates look extra stupid.

 

[cheek100]

@ Esau

 

[Nefflum nigga]

5 stars

 

[Robbie3000]

@ Esau

But on the real, Bloomberg has some fascist tendencies.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

no surprises here. the white soul loves chicken soup, drugs, sodomy, and guns.

 

[newarkhiphop]

smh @ racial profiling

 

[HummerCrusher]

It wouldn't and doesn't surprise me; they know that no-one's looking at them when it comes to the grimey street deeds.

It's like a people dressed in suits being able to walk down the street with coke in that insider pocket. No fear. But the fiend with the dusty jacket is as paranoid as **** and more likely to get stopped. Only difference is, you can't buy a new skin colour.

 

[88m3]

of course this thread gets ignored

a couple months ago the majority of posters here were saying blacks deserve to be targeted and killed.

 

[The Real]

Edomites lost.

 

[the next guy]

damn!

 

[SemiEnlightenedBum]

they'll find a way to skew the statistics somehow,trick knowledge has run hopelessly rampant,just detach&point it out from the shadows lest it steamrolls over you

half of those muthafukkas they catch are prolly undercover govt agents or bodyguards of their boyfriends that run this penal colony