Posted on 05/08/2020 10:34:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Newly released statistics on the New York Police Department's social-distancing enforcement show that black people account for the majority of arrests in Brooklyn.
Police arrested 40 people in the borough for social-distancing violations from March 17 through May 4, the district attorney's office said Thursday night.
Of those arrested, 35 people were black, four were Hispanic and one was white.
More than a third of the arrests, 16, were made in Brownsville, a predominantly black neighborhood.
Five people were arrested in East New York's 75th Precinct and another five in Bedford-Stuyvesant's 79th Precinct.
No arrests were made in Park Slope, a majority-white neighborhood.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is the first prosecutor in the city to release statistics on social-distancing enforcement. In a statement Wednesday, Gonzalez said he was reviewing the social-distancing arrests to determine if criminal charges were warranted.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired police captain, said that he has received 22 reports about "negative" social-distancing encounters between officers and civilians in the past week.
After The New York Times published a report about the arrest statistics in Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to "do better."
"Saving lives in this pandemic is job one. The NYPD uses summonses and arrests to do it," the mayor tweeted. "Most people practice social distancing, with only hundreds of summonses issued over 6 weeks. But the disparity in the numbers does NOT reflect our values. We HAVE TO do better and we WILL."
At a news conference Friday, de Blasio said: "We do not accept disparity. When we see disparity, we're going to address it."
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Of those arrested, 35 people were black, four were Hispanic and one was white.
Whitie was the ring leader obviously!
I’ve been socially distancing from them long before Covid.
Now he’s the designated racist.
Were they jogging down the street?
So are they saying the arrest are racist or the people who are not wearing mask are of a certain color??? I am confused
Ok, so white people are more easily ruled?
What is each group’s likely reaction to being told by a cop to “break it up”? The cops almost certainly give a warning or two before arresting anyone for this.
White people don’t hang around in the streets in these neighborhoods.
So were the white ppl behaving themselves or not?
Demographics matter, but so does behavior.
Combine the two before calling it racist.
De Blasio is term limited.
So one must wonder if the failure of certain groups to apply social distancing might have the slightest, wee-bit, of something to do with disparate effects of the virus on those groups?
God forbid the police should simply arrest people who violate the law, without regard to race, creed, or color.
If you believe Joy Reid on MSNBC then whites don’t get sick from COVID but blacks do.
That’s why whites want businesses open, they’re immune, says Joy
Its the new sickle cell anemia
But no double she will complain about this too
When my buddy and I started playing cards yesterday, the first eight cards he dealt were all RED!
We immediately quit playing because obviously something wasn’t fair.
“White people don’t hang around in the streets in these neighborhoods.”
Bingo. The cops would much rather arrest a white person if given the chance. It is a lot safer for them to do so in many ways.
Sad that it is not actually about black or white in the genetic sense. It is about a culture created by democrats who want to keep them enslaved to a bankrupt ideology.
Maybe blacks enjoy rubbing elbows with real people more than whites, who seem to want to be alone with their devices and their pets nowadays.
probably because the majority of the population in Brooklyn is black...
A friend of mine is NYPD- he told me if you go south of 110th Street in Manhattan its’ a ghost town as no one is around. If you go north of 110th street, which is where Harlem starts, its as though nothing has changed.
While I give the people in Harlem credit, don’t b!tch when the people you elected are giving you summonses..
“No arrests were made in Park Slope, a majority-white neighborhood.”
a majority white neighborhood where bolshevik bill resides...funny how they left that out of the article..
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