No Racial Profiling at All… Nothing to See… Moving Right Along…
February 17, 2010 by SocProf and tagged Institutional Discrimination, Institutional Racism
Paging Todd Krohn, my favorite critical criminologist, about this:
New NYPD Data for 2009 Shows Significant Rise in Stop-and-Frisks: More than Half Million New Yorkers Stopped Last Year | Center for Constitutional Rights via kwout
Let us review: Blacks and Hispanics may show up in higher proportion in crime statistics NOT because they commit more street crimes, but because they are subjected to police scrutiny to an extent disproportionate to their proportion in the general population. If cops were constantly monitoring us white folks that way, the crime statistics would look different.
The constant stopping and frisking of certain segments of the population also generates resentment in said population and lowers the respect they have for police officers perceived as harassing them. Hence, community – police interactions are also more likely to be conflictual.
For Pete’s sake, don’t they read The Saints and the Roughnecks in criminal justice programs anymore?
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February 19th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
I was just talking about Chambliss this morning in delinquency…honest ;>
I saw the story on crime stats and am not surprised (sadly). NY and NJ have had abysmal records on this for years. And given NYC’s other crime statistics controversy, one wonders how the department can defend itself and keep a straight face.
http://thepowerelite.blogspot.com/2010/02/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics.html