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Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by byEngineer on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @05:53PM (#8790675)
You would think logical people are here. If 80% of crimes is done by Blacks in a neighborhood isn't it more efficient to look for criminals in this group even if it is just 15% minority?

Why males don't complain about being targeted by the Police compared to women?

Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by Retra on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:14PM (#8790750)
That would be a good argument if you have a legal system based upon efficiency. But most legal systems are based upon _correctness_, so you cannot effectively make that kind of argument. I'm not saying it's a useless argument: I'm saying a justice system making decisions that are inconsistent with its goals and with societal expectations is going to be inefficient no matter how you slice it.
Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by logn on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:08PM (#8790736)
If you're focusing on policing a subset of people, that subset will be charged with a disproportionately high number of crimes.
Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by byEngineer on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:13PM (#8790744)
Charged isn't convicted. Somehow Blacks are 70% of prison population. So it looks like the cops are right. Unless we will buy now into a conspiracy theory that Blacks are convicted based solely on the skin color.
Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by thanksgiving on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:20PM (#8790773)
> Charged isn't convicted.

> Somehow Blacks are 70% of prison population.

Enter the plea bargain.

Those are not necessarily inconsistent. They will throw down the book at you and say you face 199 years in prison unless you plead guilty. Have you already forgotten Aaron Swartz?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by byEngineer on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:00PM (#8790709)
You mean this is why males don't complain about being targeted more often by the Police than females?
Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by kubiiii on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @03:43AM (#8792133)
If you want to go that way, you really should think of some compensation for being over targeted. It shouldnt be free for a society to over target an individual for being part of a minority.
Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by mikegioia on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:00PM (#8790706)
I don't think it's so much the fact that predominantly black neighborhoods are looked at, as it is the manner with which they're targetted.
Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by byEngineer on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:16PM (#8790756)
Which is based on subjective feelings alone.

I was treated by the byc cops really bad. I can easily imagine how much more worse I would feel if I were Black with all that PC propaganda fed into my head since birth