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new york police department data shows that in spite of a stop in frisco which
is drastically skewed towards stopping in frisking minorities
whites who were stopped in frisco are much more likely to be carrying drugs
and guns than minorities interesting day that this is publicly available insert
data on crime in twenty twelve from the new york
office of the public advocate
and it says white people were much more likely to be carrying guns and drugs
than minorities despite making up a tiny fraction of individuals police objected
to so-called
stop and frisk
what are the number six
the likelihood
other stop
the likelihood that a stop of an african-american new yorker yielded a
weapon
was half that
of white new yorkers that were stopped
and why p_d_ uncovered a weapon in one out of every forty-nine stops of white
new yorkers and it took seventy-one stocks
for every
uh... weapon finding for latinos and one out of ninety three
african-americans
the likelihood a stop of an african-american new yorker yielded
contraband
was one-third less than that of white new yorkers stock
it was one out of forty three for white new yorkers and it was only one out of
fifty seven for latinos and one out of sixty one for african americans
despite the
reduction in total stops the proportion involving black or latino new yorkers
has remained unchanged
eighty-four percent of stopping the press
is
blacks and latinos even though they are only fifty four percent of the
population
the initial reaction from a lot of people to this was
it's actually
a smaller proportion
whites then latinos or blacks that carry guns or contraband in the entire city
that's not necessarily what this shows is what this shows us is actually a
second layer of of in implicit racism which is that it's not that whites are
more likely to be carrying drugs oregon's it means that the police are
more discriminating in in kind of a good way right
about which way people they stop they've built stop a black person
for being black with less reasonable suspicion which then means that that's
going to that with which is actually get to see the numbers are where they're
really good at spotting the shady white people exactly the it's actually shown
that they're really good they're actually
using some kind of analysis to say
which white people do we want to stop we're not gonna stop way people just for
being white we're gonna actually figure out who is doing something suspicious
yeah acting suspiciously are they gonna stop eckhardt walking on the street in a
you know two thousand dollar uh...
artist alley and sue
brightwell balcony that that would anyone go down that yeah but i'm getting
out and you know prior to a certain type of thing that's fine with a robert
there's actually doing is the time
whiteness is in a mark of anything they're looking at by the things that
the person is doing
for the close of the wearing or other things about them their suspicions are
as being black is itself the part that that then the suspicion was exactly
right now even after all this data came out michael bloomberg the mayor of new
york is insisting that we need
actually to be to be stopping
less white people
and more minorities he said i think we disproportionately stoplights too much
and minorities too little
it's exactly the reverse of what they say they talking about the critics so up
michael bloomberg living in somewhat of an alternate reality and that the data
is concerning and really what we have here is we have a serious profiling
situation and it's showing has multiple levels of uh... of discrimination and
prejudice and it is disturbing
uh... overall is the stopping frisk
taking guns off the street
um... inane every aggregate level
is taking guns off of the streets the action is taken
now there is more illegal guns are taken off the streets because stoppin frisk
exists than if it didn't
but that is not the barometer for determining whether this is being done
properly in any way
debate you're making a point that yes there are there are less guns on the
streets because of stopping for check
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supreme court decision on the defense of marriage act on proposition eight all
that stuff
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