The End Racial Profiling Act (2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011), or ERPA for short, would outlaw racial profiling – where the police stop you because of your race. It is a common experience for black and Native American men and, increasingly, for Latinos and those who look “Muslim”.
ERPA would:
- Outlaw profiling by race, religion, ethnicity or national origin by police and other law enforcement at all levels of government. It would become a crime!
- Provide training to make profiling less common.
- Provide the right to sue, making it easier to take profilers to court.
- Require progress reports on profiling from the Justice Department.
It has yet to pass Congress.
Racial profiling underlies the murder of Trayvon Martin, the Japanese American internment, New York’s “stop and frisk” policy, driving while black, Arizona’s SB 1070, the Wen Ho Lee case, the mass incarceration of black men, etc.
The FBI does it. So does the DEA (drugs). So does the TSA at airports. It goes back to the slave patrols, out of which both the Klan and American policing grew. Charles Chesnutt wrote about it in 1905. It was largely unaffected by the civil rights reforms of the 1960s. Lately it has been strengthened by Islamophobia and anti-immigrant feeling.
It is racist, it is unconstitutional and it does not even work. For example:
- Of domestic terrorists 94% are – not Muslim.
- Whites use and sell drugs at about the same rate as blacks and Latinos.
- The DEA stopped Boni Rhodes-Berg as a suspected drug dealer because she was black. When they searched her bags they found – a Bible.
- The NYPD stops over a half million people a year under its “stop and frisk” policy. Nearly 90% are black or Latino. They find no guns 99.8% of the time.
- Profiling creates distrust of police in communities of colour, making it harder to fight crime.
Barack Obama has himself been racially profiled. As senator he was an ERPA sponsor. But since 2009 he has gone silent, keeping the toothless Bush policy: the 2003 “Guidance Regarding the Use of Race and Ethnicity by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies” – which he could change without Congress.
Media guide: websites ranked by their use of “End Racial Profiling Act”:
- 15,800: ACLU
- 4,940: CAIR (Muslim)
- 348: SALDEF (Sikh)
- 338: Change.org
- 324: Twitter
- 287: Rights Working Group
- 234: The Leadership Conference
- 143: Tumblr
- 110: Huffington Post
- 65: SAALT (South Asian)
- 62: Daily Kos
- 56: Ebony
- 50: BET
- 48: Colorlines
- 42: NAACP
- 34: National Review
- 16: USA Today
- 8: Jack & Jill Politics
- 7: The Root, The Hill
- 6: New York Times, Amnesty International
- 5: CNN
- 4: Washington Post, The Nation, The Grio, Center for Constitutional Rights
- 3: Politico, NPR
- 2: ABC News, Truthout, Racialicious, the White House
- 1: BBC, Fox News, Democracy Now, New York Post, Yahoo! News, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, American Enterprise Institute, Truthdig, Wall Street Journal, News One, Village Voice, Salon, SPLC, PolitiFact
- 0: Wikipedia, CBS News, MSNBC, The Economist, Al Jazeera, New York Daily News, The New Republic, Time, The Guardian, New Yorker, ZNet, Nerdland, Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Slate, Talking Points Memo, Think Progress, Essence, Crew of 42, Amsterdam News, Clutch, Color of Change, National Urban League
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Maybe that is a good barometer to test on someone: Do you trust the police?
But it is distrust of all law enforcement, not just police.
BTW, you mentioned it did not pass Congress. Where is its status now?
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.” If someone tried to stereotype Jews the same way Arabs and Muslims are, they would be instantly called an anti-Semite. ”
the irony in that comment is that, Arabs are semites as well.
Obama is never going to bring up ERPA in congress, cause he’s a sellout.
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^^ bottom line!
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@ Jefe
As far as I know it has never got out of committee. However they did have Senate hearings in 2012, the first time since 2001 when they held hearings – a month before 9/11!!!
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@ Abagond
driving while black
According to a survey of 80,000 civilians conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2002, an identical proportion of white, black, and Hispanic drivers – 9 percent – were stopped by the police in the previous year. And the stop rate for blacks was lower during the day, when officers can more readily determine a driver’s race, than at night.
New York’s “stop and frisk” policy, The NYPD stops over a half million people a year under its “stop and frisk” policy. Nearly 90% are black or Latino. They find no guns 99.8% of the time.
In New York, blacks are 50% of all persons stopped and frisked by the police, but only 25% of the population. Some use this disparity between population percentages and enforcement activity to allege police profiling. And such a disparity would be troubling if crime rates were evenly distributed across the population. But they’re not.
In 2011, blacks were 66 percent of all violent-crime suspects, according to the victims of and witnesses to those crimes. Blacks committed around 70 percent of all robberies and about 80 percent of all shootings in the city. Add Hispanic shootings, and you account for 98 percent of all shootings in the city.
Whites, by contrast, were only 5 percent of all violent-crime suspects, commit barely 1 percent of all shootings, and less than 5 percent of all robberies. Such disparities mean the police cannot deploy their resources where people most need protection from violence “in minority neighborhoods” without producing racially disproportionate stops. If we want the police to be effective, they have to go to where the crime is. When they don’t that means grandmothers and children have to run the gauntlet of gangs and drug dealers to walk to the corner grocery or to school.
They find no guns 99.8% of the time.
One purpose of stop and frisk is to deter criminals from carrying guns, in order to minimize spur-of-the-moment shootings. That deterrence has taken place. Street gangs now keep “community guns” in communal locations rather than on their person, to avoid a gun possession arrest if they are stopped. The city’s astounding homicide drop “82 percent from 1990 to 2009” is driven by a decline in gun crime, which disproportionately affects black males. Not only is stop and frisk not profiling but it disproportionately saves black lives.
the mass incarceration of black men
Most crimes against blacks are committed by other blacks. So the primary beneficiaries of “the mass incarceration of black men” are also black. How else would you protect law-abiding blacks other than incarcerating the criminals who prey on them?
Whites use and sell drugs at about the same rate as blacks and Latinos
Whites use drugs at about the same rate but they don’t sell or join gangs at the same rate. Few people white or black arrested for a simple possession end up serving time. Notice I said “arrested” for a simple possession. Pay attention — Most dealers arrested for distribution plea bargain down to posession. So it looks like blacks are getting harsher sentences for the same crime. But thats not what’s happening.
Profiling creates distrust of police in communities of colour, making it harder to fight crime.
No. False allegations of profiling do that.
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Racial profiling is like the crack cocaine of the policing world. They will never give it up.
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@ Churchs
Other cities have seen even bigger drops in crime without stop and frisk. And they predicted the crime rate would drop in the 1990s even before mass incarceration went into full effect – because of the demographics and because of the way drug epidemics burn themselves out.
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@ Kiwi
Big time!
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@ Kiwi
“I have learned that Americans consider antisemitism far worse than racism when in fact the opposite is true.”
America is lax at best when it comes to racism, especially towards Jews. You could walk down the street in America wearing a swastika on your chest and calling every Jew that walks by a “Kike”, and besides a few glares, arrive home safely. Try that in Europe and you will be arrested on the spot as swastikas and racial slurs are illegal. I do, however, agree with you partly. It is not everyday that you find someone donning a swastika, but the American swastika (Confederate flag) is still quite prevalent, especially in the misguided South.
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Well, I would support this act.
It seems to make sense so unless there’s something stupid buried in with all the other ideas I don’t see why it hasn’t been passed already.
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@Churchs
Whites have much higher propensity for pedophilia. According to your dubious logic white men should be banned from all contact with children.
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@ eshowoman
Whites have much higher propensity for pedophilia. According to your dubious logic white men should be banned from all contact with children.
First, I haven’t said anyone should be banned from anything. And, second, your pedophilia claim isn’t true.
The highest prevalence rate of child sexual abuse geographically was found in Africa (34.4%). Europe showed the lowest prevalence rate (9.2%). America and Asia had prevalence rates between 10.1% and 23.9%.
http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/global-prevalence-child-sexual-abuse/
This US study puts the child sexual abuse rate for blacks at 18.8% and whites at 9.4%.
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/CV4.pdf (See Table 5 on pg 417)
Yet another study shows that (58.2%) of child sexual abuse victims are European American compared to (23.6%) who are African American.
Click to access Hanson_correlates%20ofsexabuse.pdf
(See “Results” on pg 6)
As you can see, all three studies confirm one another. And child sexual abuse is twice as common among blacks as whites.
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I’m a white guy. I’m not a stereotype either.
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The just us system will never allow more than the illusion of equality to exist.
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I have become an actualized true blue African American. I drove while black last week and got pulled over twice. No real reason given to me by the white officers except “you didn’t leave your blinker on long enough when changing lanes (which I did in order to avoid rear ending someone who stopped suddenly). Oh and ” when you approached the small hill you were going 40 mph (35 zone) I was simply driving with the traffic so I knew it was BS. Wow what a trip! I must say that I am one of those over educated (MD), no criminal history, middle class ,six figure, soccer/tennis moms that the politicos constantly talk about. My driving record has been pristine until now…….But woo hoo I’M BLACK! Get this , when I go to pay the ticket I was told by a white man that I was being profiled for driving in the wrong area.I don’t know if I should write my congressman or fry up some chicken. I was never harassed so much in the south!
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wow are you for real jj
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@churchs
I should have told the white man who assaulted me when I was 9 years old to stop it because he was the wrong color. Since you have “statistics” that “prove” blacks are inferior to whites I’m every way what do recommended we blighted darkies do to improve our hopeless lot?
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I have an aching feeling Churchs is trying to secretly justify racial profiling, particularly against blacks. Then again, I shouldn’t be surprised by now.
Most people, regardless of who they are, who supports racial profiling honestly believe that it’s to fight crime and terrorism. All it is is trying to maintain white Christian society and containing those who are not in their own place. Racial profiling basically says, “You are not fit to be free or given respect while you’re in ‘my’ land because you’re not white and/or Christian.”
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@churchs
You are also nit picking the articles you post as proof, in the hopes that we lazy negroes will not check them.
http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/global-prevalence-child-sexual-abuse/
South Africa has the highest prevalence rates for both men (60.9%) and women (43.7%). Jordan presents the second-highest prevalence rate for men (27%), followed by Tanzania (25%). Rates between 10% and 20% are reported for males in Israel (15.7%), Spain (13.4%), Australia (13%) and Costa Rica (12.8%), while the remaining countries all have prevalence rates below 10%.
South Africa and Tanzania are both have multi-racial populations. As we saw this weekend the with Oscar Pretorious, the violence in South Africa is not just endemic in the black population. Africa has over 50 countries, only these two are listed in the abstract. You cannot extrapolate what is happening on continent by two countries that are obviously outliers
Click to access CV4.pdf
Here are the results in page 266 not page 6! You did not put these in your post because this data contradicts your racist screed
RESULTS
Within this nationally representative sample of adolescents, 326 (8.1%) reported having experienced an event that met criteria for CSA. Of the 326 adolescents who experienced CSA, 71 were boys (21.9%) and 254
(78.1%) were girls. With regard to race, over half of adolescents who indicated that they had experienced CSA were European American (58.2%), one quarter
were African American (23.6%), and an even smaller
number were Hispanic (9.4%) or from other ethnic backgrounds (8.2%).
Click to access CV4.pdf
This article is 29 years old. You had to had to dig that far back to get “evidence.”
This study indicated that sexual abuse was the highest among blacks (59%) and among children living in the pacific (62.7) and mountain (64.6) regions of the US. Those in case you could not figure it out are white people. Since there were only 61 black children out of in the study out inclined 2072 recipients (only 3% of the study), I question the validity of this study. I also doubt this study is reliable either since the other two studies do not repeat the same results the same results.
I would work on you other studies you posted about racial profiling but I and I hope the other readers are hip to your game.
I do hope that you will take your time answer my request I put on my last post. Please advise on how we poor negroes how we can be as perfect as white people?
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Racial profiling, like most American policing when it comes to blacks, is a form of control and intimidation. It has little to do with crime and even less with keeping black people safe. The safety of black people is WAY DOWN on the list of White People Concerns. Somewhere behind saving the whales.
Many whites will agree that racial profiling is wrong, but that is just another piece of their ABSTRACT liberalism, aka Saying All The Right Words. From a cost-benefit analysis, aka Screw You, they have little to lose from racial profiling (it is not directed at them) and, seemingly, everything to gain (maybe some bad guys will get caught, who knows). Sure, it leads to bad policing of Certain Neighbourhoods, but what do they care about that? Absolutely nothing if their actions are anything to go by.
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@ Kiwi
Good analogy with sexism.
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I remember watching The Wire a while back and there being a conversation between the drug dealers about how the government wouldn’t care about the drug trade going on if it wasn’t for all the violence.
I don’t think anyone has addressed church’s similar claim.
So what about it? Are high rates of violent crime drawing more police attention to black communities which result in disproportionate arrest rates for drug crimes?
Not that an affirmative answer would validate racial profiling. It is still wrong and inefficient in my opinion. Seems like it is being used as a replacement for actual detective work.
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“I would work on you other studies you posted about racial profiling but I and I hope the other readers are hip to your game. ”
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-Eshowoman
Yep! We know how these nit picking race realists (aka real racists) operate. He’s just another variation of Randy, Bliff, Lara, Thordaddy – banned and yet to be banned trolls that are hell bent on stinking up this blog with their foul presence.
Once you can stomach their stench, they are often comical and entertaining – in a convoluted kind of way. They’re like a penny a dozen, not worth much and certainly not to be taken seriously.
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America is lax at best when it comes to racism, especially towards Jews.
If the definition of racism is power + prejudice, then there is no racism towards Jews, as they are the most powerful group in America. Disagreement with Israels Palestinian policy will at best lead to accusations of anti-semitism or often more seriously, the loss of your career, livelihood and reputation.
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One quick note: white people try (short term) and use (long term) illegal drugs at a far higher rate than blacks or Hispanics (current estimates put the white rate at 55%/45%, blacks at 40%/25% and Hispanics at 45%/33%). On top of that, it’s the rare non-white long term drug abuser who uses anything stronger than marijuana (most blacks and Latinosstick with weed, while whites and Asians go the pill/meth route.)
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Profiling, of all sorts, is a natural human instinct. All people, of all colours do it, unconsciously, to size up people. When you look at strangers in the street, you are putting them unthinkingly into boxes according to race, sex, sexuality, class, weight, taste, clothes, accent etc. etc.
Trying to enforce a ban on it would be impossible but were it possible, would only lead to more crime, more police dishonesty (as bogus reasons will be given), endless cases of litigation and probably a voter back lash against anti-profiling policies.
I don’t think race should be the only factor in allowing police to stop and search a citizen,but they should be allowed to use it in conjunction with other information to make arrests. That seems totally reasonable to me.
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@Kiwi,
According to the US Department of Justice, men commit about 75% of violent crimes while women commit only 20%. But I don’t see any mass efforts by any institutions to specifically stop and frisk men at random to search for weapons.
Men get stopped and searched at much higher rates than women. They get searched specifically because they are men. They are profiled all the time.
They also get imprisoned at much higher rates, though not as a corollary to profiling, rather, profiling is the corollary to imprisonment/crime rates.
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@churchs
I live in New York and I’ll say this: if black men (let’s go with an age range of 12-45) weren’t as likely to be frisked in dress clothes as in “hood gear” (with crack or weed spilling out of their pockets), you’d have a case. As racist as I am for doing this, I myself am always more wary of the guy wearing a goose down coat and Timberlands in May, than his better dressed counterpart. But, I can remember living in Brooklyn back in 2000 and seeing doctors (with the suitcase and the Mercedes-Benz fob chain, leaving the employees entrance at Stonybrook), getting the “stop and frisk” treatment. That’s absurd, and considering the fact that stockbrokers and corporate types in NYC are continually being busted for drug use…
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I grew up with cops most of my friends parents were cops and judges. I sound “white” most time my friends parents would forget that they had a black kid in the house and you’d hear some of the most racist things come out of their mouths. Two times in my life I have been trapped in a place with no escape with card carrying racist. I heard less racist comments from them then these cops and judges. By the way even if you say sorry, we didn’t mean you even at seven I didn’t believe you when you just made a comment using the n word or darkies. The same people who use the n word word like a painter gone made on a canvas were the authorites.
On Racial profiling unfortunately you can’t tell me it doesn’t happen. I have had it happen way too often with the officers calling me boy. Yes, I have reported it and when you go to the station they try their damn hardest to get you not to, and no if you pull out a black officer to explain that the idiot who pulled me over called me boy but couldn’t give me a ticket because I had done nothing wrong isn’t going to stop me from reporting him.
However, I learn my lesson well when I was young carry around a tape recorder put it on the moment you get pulled over, make copies and have your friends on speed dial so they can hear it.
If the cops were really interested in helping out minority communities they would get to know the communities. I know in my neighbor in the 90’s you wouldn’t see a cop around unless something bad happen and usually like an hour too late even though the nearest station was only 10mins by car maybe a 25 minute walk.
On wearing a suit. From the time I was 8 till 26 I wore a suit usually a three piece suit yes I had a fedora maybe that was the problem. I went to art school on the weekends my friends from art school were punks (probably why I like the Dead Kennedys, and Dead Milkman so much back then), even my punk friends who had tatooes they done themselfves, safty pins in various parts of their body, mohawks dyed hair and enough holes in their body to make Pinhead proud were shock at how much the police harassed me. The difference is I would drop the names of my friends parents and most time get left alone.
I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have my student card from 12-16 because I had to pull it out to the cops at least 6 times a month. My friend Jennifer did a count she reckon it was because I went into all white areas a lot. However, she on the other had would get pulled over and warned about the area she was walking in her mother is black but she is pale as the moon with curly brown hair and blue eyes. They never once asked her for her id. Racial Profiling is crap.
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Insults, anecdotes and hearsay aren’t evidence.
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@churchs
But your edited “research” is not proof either.
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Insults, anecdotes and hearsay aren’t evidence.
No, but they are entertaining whilst coming from you! Carry on!
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Don’t you know everything Churchs says is an unquestionable nugget of wisdom and insight? How dare you question his infinite knowledge!
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Even blog commenting is work ,guess it definitely is for a segment of global society that is privileged to have the free,disposable time – never mine the pc knowledge and access.
Anyway maybe the albinic political and local military (police) resistance to not Racial Profiling is due to its effectiveness in maintaining the social dominance of the albinic population by its effect of continual harassment ,stress,and resulting debilitation of targeted melaninated population members.
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@ Friday Foster-ABWW (@eshowoman)
You cannot extrapolate what is happening on continent by two countries that are obviously outliers
You listed outlier countries. I only gave continental averages and racial averages for the US.
You did not put these in your post because this data contradicts your racist screed
There was no screed. I only gave the figures that refute your claim. And if you review my comment you’ll see the figures you claim I omitted were included.
his study indicated that sexual abuse was the highest among blacks (59%) and among children living in the pacific (62.7) and mountain (64.6) regions of the US. Those in case you could not figure it out are white people.
The report doesn’t give a racial breakdown for the pacific and mountain ranges. So I made no assumptions and neither should you.
Please advise on how we poor negroes how we can be as perfect as white people?
You imply I’m condescending. But I only refuted your false claim. You’re the one who brought up pedophilia. Why is it a “racist screed” when I refute your claim but not when you make it?
I was going to let this go until you started claiming on other threads that I was “twisting the truth”. Do you know why I was going to let it go? Because I don’t like arguing with brick walls. Now go ahead and get the last word because I’ve made my point.
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I hope that is @churchs last word. In his racist arrogance assumed that our “victim mentality” was so inferior that none of would know how to read academic research. He is trying to save his racist screed by standing by his edited “facts” and running away in a huff.
The report doesn’t give a racial breakdown for the pacific and mountain ranges. So I made no assumptions and neither should you.
(If this is not how you italicize on this blog, please let me know)
The only state in the Pacific/ Mountain states with a significant black population is California. Using color blindness as racism is a tired, old, cliche.
Bye @churchs don’t let the doorknob hit ya where the dorr knob should have split ya!
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I got a warning when I went to @churchs URL. Why didn’t he simply respond on this thread. Perhaps he is trying to leave us “inferiors” with a computer bug?
@adagond please take that URL out of the comment if you can. Thanks.
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It needs to stop..
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MaMu1977
@churchs
I live in New York and I’ll say this: if black men (let’s go with an age range of 12-45) weren’t as likely to be frisked in dress clothes as in “hood gear” (with crack or weed spilling out of their pockets), you’d have a case. As racist as I am for doing this, I myself am always more wary of the guy wearing a goose down coat and Timberlands in May, than his better dressed counterpart. But, I can remember living in Brooklyn back in 2000 and seeing doctors (with the suitcase and the Mercedes-Benz fob chain, leaving the employees entrance at Stonybrook), getting the “stop and frisk” treatment. That’s absurd, and considering the fact that stockbrokers and corporate types in NYC are continually being busted for drug use
I am a born and bred NY’er and as a black person u could be dressed business professional, as a day-worker as a student and the chances of ur being harassed by police officers is exponentially higher than any other race walking the streets of NY. I remember during Giuliani’s reign of terror some students from Harvard U. Came down to NYC on a weekend foray, aside from being of color they looked exactly like what they were, privileged college students, well NYPD caught up with them , pulled them out of their car , beat them slapped them around verbally abused them. No reason, oh yes, they were black and NYPD let them know in no uncertain terms that even though they r students at Harvard in NYC they r still just n words that NYPD can harass abuse and humiliate as they see fit. And don’t be a black person driving a vehicle white racist cops can’t afford.. Ur just asking for it.
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I was born in London but spent half of my childhood in NYC. I love that city, but the black and brown people live with a target on their backs. It is a community of working class black ans brown immigrants with the projects smack dab in the middle. It was Amadou Diallo’s neighborhood too.
Giancarlo Esposito was stopped and frisked last year. He was rehearsing for a play and wearing a suit. The man was on two of the most popular tv shows in America but he is still seen as a criminal.
Esposito was stopped and frisked by New York police while walking out of a theater where he was rehearsing a play. After several frantic minutes – with him and officers screaming, and their guns drawn – they realized they had the wrong guy. Their suspect had a hoodie, and Esposito was wearing a suit. When it was over, one of the officers recognized him, from his recent turn on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time.”
Oscar winner Forrest Whitaker was stop and frisked by a worker at a N. Y.deli
last week:
An employee at the Milano Deli stopped Whitaker as he was leaving the store, accusing him of shoplifting and patting him down.
“It was around lunchtime and the store was packed,” a Milano employee, who chose to remain anonymous, told the News. “We were like 50 people deep. The person walked in and out really quickly so our person just made a mistake. The employee apologized immediately. It was an honest mistake. I’ve been here 14 years and nothing like this has ever happened Whitaker’s publicist, Jennifer Plante, told the News that Whitaker was disturbed by the employee’s behavior..”
If you believe that I have a nice bridge to sell you a few miles away from the Milano Deli.
Although women and girls are stopped less frequently, they are increasing report of women getting humiliated and inappropriately fondled by cops.
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As a Native American woman, I was “stopped” for silly little things in the first decade and a half of my driving life, probably exactly TWO times the entire decade, both times for “the Rhode Island Roll.” That was the 80’s and the 90’s, combined. Lately it’s gotten more and more frequent and this last decade I’m starting to get COURT DATES over it. Yeah, something has to stop. I became a Math teacher after law school because I found myself with almost NO credibility whatsoever defending the law in my personal dealings; I was getting screwed right, left, forward and backward in almost every aspect of my life just because I “look Black” and don’t “act” black (why should I, I’m Choctaw INDIAN not “black”) which causes dumbshit little things to happen to me and spiral out of control which wouldn’t happen if I had lighter skin. Back in the early turn of this century I figured that since that’s the way I was being treated by the general public, employers and law enforcement because of the colour of my skin even WITH a law degree, I didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Roswell of being listened to or taken seriously IN a courtroom. Hell, I figured they wouldn’t even shut up long enough to be able to HEAR me – this is why I like teaching the Deaf because I KNOW why they can’t hear me. They’re not just acting like they don’t want to listen to me like the general public’s “hearing” people are.
Looks like I need to go back into Law because as a high school math teacher I can’t be constantly running afoul of the police because of the colour of my skin, especially in one of the only states where Brown people OUTNUMBER White people.
But yes, racial profiling is illegal. Especially when WOMEN are starting to get pulled over for nonsense little BS things just because the cop got wind of the colour of your skin and has a ream of extra tickets to give out. The instant assumption based on skin colour is that either you’ll believe the BS they hand out, or you’ll be too uneducated and illiterate to fight them in court and possibly SUE them for racial profiling.
Dammit I came to this state to TEACH MATH not to practise LAW just defending myself over BS little nonsense like this. Hell the assumption that I wouldn’t know any better is RACISM enough for me to file at least one lawsuit.
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People in HK are more than 100 times more likely to be subject to stop and search than New Yorkers. Prior to 1997, a large proportion were those suspected of being from Mainland China. In recent years, the growing proportion are those of African and South Asian descent, particularly as Beijing as been trying to exert more influence.
Asia’s world city? Hong Kong ethnic minorities feel targeted by police stop and search actions
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/10/08/asias-world-city-hong-kong-ethnic-minorities-feel-targeted-police-stop-search-actions/
Of course, perhaps many of the stop and search incidents in NY are not even recorded.
But there is even less recourse in HK than in NY to fight this as police and public authorities are exempt from the Racial Discrimination Ordinance.
I have noticed this problem for a long time, but most local ethnic Chinese seem unaware of the prevalence or seriousness of this situation.
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