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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by memracom on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:46PM (#7512301)
Typical Americans. You have a growing problem with police corruption in your country and you can only talk about race relations. Cops who do the things described in the article are breaking the law in other ways when you aren't watching. Recent events in New Mexico are a case in point.

You should be thankful that corrupt cops are racist because they can't help giving themselves away by mistreating blacks. Until you folks break up the corrupt police brotherhood and take back control of law enforcement, things will only get worse.

Fix the root problem and minority males will cease to have problems like this.

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by ritchiea on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:50PM (#7512333)
Actually the stop & frisk policy the author is writing about is legal in NYC & ex-Mayor Bloomberg was a big proponent, going as far as saying New York police stop whites too often and nonwhites not often enough[0].

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/nyregion/bloomberg-says-ma...

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by cperciva on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:02PM (#7512388)
the stop & frisk policy the author is writing about is legal

There is a law which supports it. But that law might well be unconstitutional, in which case the policy it supports is not necessarily legal.

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by ritchiea on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:07PM (#7512409)
Correct, it may be unconstitutional but I believe the case is still in court and for now it is still policy in NYC. Since it is current NYC city policy and has not yet been definitively ruled unconstitutional I think it's fair to call the practice "legal in NYC."
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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by nmrm on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:53PM (#7512351)
The author's observation is that racial profiling is at the heart of why we have problems with police corruption.

The end of the article argues that racial profiling allows a majority of citizens to ignore problems with policing because abuses are highly concentrated on "other people". This makes police corruption "not my problem".

The problem isn't complacency with the abuses; the problem is that abuses are concentrated on minorities of the population so that the majority of voters/stakeholders don't have enough skin in the game to care.

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by jamesriver on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:56PM (#7512359)
>Typical Americans.

Must you begin your comment on an article about discrimination by using a stereotype?

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by ggchappell on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:11PM (#7512429)
> You have a growing problem with police corruption in your country ....

Do we? I'm not sure.

Certainly in recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of well publicized incidents of police corruption (and use of excessive force and various rights violations). But is this because such incidents are becoming more common, or because they are more likely to be reported and/or publicized effectively?

I honestly don't know the answer. I'd be interested in hard evidence on either side.

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by larrys on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:45PM (#7512586)
"> You have a growing problem with police corruption in your country ...."

"Do we? I'm not sure."

Actually I find the parent comment such a wide generalization that's it's almost laughable.

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by mbubb on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:39PM (#7512564)
It is as much the militarization as the police as out and out corruption...
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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by rayiner on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:13PM (#7512434)
NYPD doesn't really fit your narrative of the rogue police department where the racism is just a symptom. If you look at, for example salaries, it clear that the city has a pretty good handle on the police union. Stop and frisk is legal (so far), and an explicit policy of the city government. And its a policy that's largely supported by the upper classes that run the city. And the public has largely supported the increased police presence under Guilliani and Bloomberg.
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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by kawliga on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:18PM (#7512470)
> Typical Americans.

Am I the only one getting extremely tired of the anti-american trolls?

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by Casseres on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:31PM (#7513372)
> You have a growing problem with police corruption in your country

I don't know. With advancements in technology, it's easier to catch and share such incidents. That doesn't necessarily mean there is more corruption though.

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Re:What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my blac... by owenjones on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @10:31PM (#7513201)
Typical people, using tired anti-other-people sentiment to make glaring generalizations.

Seriously, please take this nonsense elsewhere, many of us are well aware of the issues regarding law enforcement in this country.

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