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To: SeekAndFind
The "stop and frisk" detection might disproportionately impact minorities because the majority of the crimes were committed by minorities in minority neighborhoods and that just ain't fair.
3 posted on 12/29/2012 11:41:38 AM PST by BipolarBob (White , bitter, clinging to my Bible and AR-15.)
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To: BipolarBob
From Wiki about Raymond Kelly:
As Commissioner of the NYPD under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Kelly once again displayed his mastery of outreach,[weasel words] appearing at events such as the Brooklyn's annual West Indian Day Parade, where he was photographed playing the drums and speaking to community leaders. Bloomberg and Kelly, however, continued to place heavy reliance on the CompStat system, initiated by Bill Bratton and since adopted by police departments in other cities world wide. The system, while recognized as highly effective in reducing crime, also puts pressure on local precincts to reduce the number of reports for the seven major crimes while increasing the number of lesser arrests.[22] The two men continued and indeed stepped up Mayor Giuliani's controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which disproportionately targets black and Latino youth and is considered by some to be a form of racial profiling. In the first half of 2011 the NYC police made 362,150 such arrests, constituting a 13.5 percent increase from the same period in 2010, according to WNYC radio (which also reported that 84 percent of the people stopped were either black or Latino, and that "nine out 10 stops did not result in any arrest or ticket.")

9 posted on 12/29/2012 12:22:05 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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