Eric Garner, The Big Picture

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Bill Cosby and the United States:

When you develop a likeness for a person, it is much harder to believe accusations of horrific acts. As in the case, of Bill Cosby, we grew up watching his show and other works that resulted in this strong bond to this fictional character. This person may through works of charity and other deliberate cultivation of this persona transfer this fictional character onto himself. As a result, we denounced these accusations as false immediately, even though many women and men came forward with similar stories.

We grew up watching this fictional character of the United States. A country that stood for freedom and democracy. A country that ended the Holocaust and freed thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany. There is no way in hell, that white America would engage in this type of activity to its own citizens who fought and died in Civil Wars, American Revolution, and many other conflicts that allowed the United States to remain independent and united.

We All Violate the Law:

It is a fact of life that all of us through the struggle of life commit crimes in various capacities. The last presidents admitted openly to the use of narcotics, perjury, sexual harassment, rape, driving under the influence, and many other undiscovered acts by law enforcement. If these noble individuals, holding the highest executive office in the land have committed crimes, than most of us have done things. Therefore, how we choose to focus law enforcement resources will significantly impact what racial groups are incarcerated, and prevented from procreating.

Unfortunately,through statistical analysis, review of many incidents, and attempts to cover up, there could be crimes against humanity being committed in the US. Eric Garner may be a symptom of a much larger problem, where law enforcement resources are overwhelmingly targeted at particular racial groups. Laws are passed to increase the number of activities that a person can be convicted such as drug laws.

The law enforcement officer that approached Eric Garner, police command structure, or political hack may have other ulterior motives which resulted in this deadly confrontation.

Denial and Propaganda:

As a result of the preparation of the United Nations report on torture that obtained testimony from Michael Brown’s parents. This UN report on torture is prepared periodically by signatories of the treaty that was planned to observe various activities in the United States. Additionally, indictments were pending on deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner that could lead to mass chaos and armed conflict. A belief that genocidal acts are being committed could inflame tensions and draw attention from the ICC. As a result, discussions of genocidal intent by the state were censored and viewers were redirected to other unlikely reasons. As a result, the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity attempted to timely release a barrage of documentaries and news programming from white liberal outlets to influence public opinion.

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These videos falsely convey that for-profit companies are the culprit, that whites are victims of this over criminalization by the state, that blacks are not being targeted. There is no mention of possible genocidal intent to warn viewers of this possible danger, and to take action politically, economically, and socially.

After seeing these videos and other commentary, we need to be wary of white liberals and conservatives. Some of these liberals want to live in a white social democracy like most of Europe and have no interest in living among other racial groups. It makes sense to use these progressive media outlets due to their higher credibility and ability to convince their victims that the Holocaust that is occurring is benign and unrelated to their racial identity. They also want to be able to link this atrocity to for-profit companies which Fox news would be incapable of doing due to its platform

Statistical analysis:

Many of these denial and propaganda pieces attempt to show whites as victims of this over criminalization, Let’s do some math to see how much of a victim that whites are with regards to the criminal justice system. Based off of census data there are roughly 39 million people that identify as African American.

A look at the numbers shows that 841,000 black males plus 64,800 black females are incarcerated out of a total prison population of 2.3 million. Now, if you divide that over 39 million than you get 2.3% of the African-American population in the United States is incarcerated.

There are 223 million whites in the United States based on the census. In order for them to be a ‘victim’ of over-criminalization and comparable to African-Americans there would need to be 5.1 million held under the custody of the state! Fortunately for whites there is a paltry 600,000 individuals that are incarcerated. So when you talk about over criminalization, putting white faces on TV is just misleading their viewers that everybody is being targeted.

Consider the following facts.

·Five times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites.
·African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of Whites.
·African American juvenile youth are about 16% of the youth population, 37% of their cases are moved to criminal court & 58% of convicted African American youth are sent to adult prisons.

Genocide and Eliminating Competition:

Why are African-Americans being insanely targeted by the criminal justice system?

Prior to 1970, the number of people that were incarcerated was low. I believe that forced integration, forced busing of African-Americans to white schools, voting rights, civil rights, the ability to combat and redress employment discrimination played a key part that triggered a genocidal response by whites. Their land that their ancestors fought to take from Native Americans, could through exponential population growth be taken over by other racial groups. This has led to these horrific crimes against humanity against African-Americans to prevent procreation through incarceration.

I believe there is also economic measures being taken to limit the availability of jobs through offshoring to other countries, unfavorable trade policies such as the one with Japan that led to the collapse of Detroit. Where Japan purchases only a handful of cars from the big three in United States.

The Solution:

Since criminal activity is endemic of all racial groups and that intentional targeting of law enforcement resources will cause a disproportionate prison population, we should establish various measures to prevent this. One measure is to create a hard limit on the number of arrests that could occur for a particular nonviolent crime for a racial group.

Once a number is reached for a year, the police will no longer investigate or arrest persons in that racial group unless a proportionate arrest is made to whites. You want to stockpile African-Americans into prison, you are going to have to stockpile whites. Law enforcement have established quotas for arrests, we can also establish a maximum quota for arresting minorities to prevent over representation.

Request submission of a report that show the racial makeup of arrest for each year to the NAACP or other organizations for non-violent arrests such as drugs or selling cigarettes at the local level. Inquire about abnormalities and request further detail. Recommend limiting further activity for a particular crime.

This will provide a temporary stopgap measure for this type of activity. Long-term, we may have to seek out informal separation and concentration as is done by many victimized groups such as Jews.

 

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The Myth of the Criminal Black Male.

For 50 years, the rate at which blacks were admitted into prison was low. African Americans have the capacity to be incarcerated at low levels, we are not inherently criminal as compared to whites.

Unfortunately, this was during Jim Crow, segregation, and rigged literacy tests to vote. There was minimal contact between whites and blacks.

As soon as MLK shows up with other civil rights activist that pushed for integration, the rate of incarceration shot up.

Blacks started moving into white neighborhoods, which caused white flight to the suburbs. Blacks soon followed into these areas also. Schools and colleges began to admit minorities. Employers had to hire and retain minorities which resulted in many whites working alongside blacks. Blacks were voting and electing black mayors and governors.

More contact between whites and black begin to take place. This increase in contact between two divergent groups resulted in a genocidal response from whites to focus law enforcement resources at a racial group, resulting in the highest incarceration percentage in the world for African Americans. If we had the same incarceration rate as whites, 800,000 blacks would be free!


I also looked at Jamaica, Haiti, and other Caribbean countries, with groups of people that were former slaves who would be representative of any genetic predisposition towards crime. Incarceration rate is almost equal to blacks from 1920 to 1970.

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)

The Great Migration

Here you can see that freed slaves lived mostly in rural areas in the South prior to the Great Migration. As time went on we spread to places throughout country. Many of these places had very low black populations.

We went from high density in a small area to a low density large area. This resulted in greater contact with whites that were not used to a large black population. It also put blacks at a disadvantage being a minority in an city area.

Many faced housing and other forms of discrimination. However, the Civil Rights era changed all that, radically changing the pattern of housing and schools. Eric Garner ancestors followed this same pattern probably that put him in New York as a minority. Instead of a Marion Barry type of mayor, he encounters Rudy Giuliani. The whites due to their relative size are able to elect hostile leadership that does not need to be responsive or accountable to blacks.

As you can see migration put us into or increased contact with whites. It also decreased our numbers and political power in the South. They responded with incarcerating as many of us as they can get their hands on and even killing if given a chance.

We also live in cities or States as 5,10,15 percent of population. As a result, we have little influence politically and economically over the the city and State. This results in political leadership that is unresponsive and hostile much the same way as Nazi Germany was towards the Jews who also was a tiny minority.

 

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Random Fact: from 1920 to 1960, 67% of African Americans owned businesses, owned land, owned banks, and started their own political parties in this country. It all disappeared when in the 60’s the NAACP demanded from the all white government of America to be integrated within the white culture of America. The prominent and prosperous yet segregated Black America that came to be from the 20’s to the 60’s dissolved overnight with white integration. Resulting in less than 4% of African American ownership in white America.

 

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Bruh, check your PM's.

 

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Bruh, check your PM's.

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Are police killings/lynchings and Stop and Frisk (Jim Crow) intended to cause mass migration out of area? It looks like it was effective in the South, where 33% of the black population left.

 

[Greed]

Law Puts Us All in Same Danger as Eric Garner

Law Puts Us All in Same Danger as Eric Garner
By Stephen L. Carter
Dec 4, 2014 10:56 AM EST

On the opening day of law school, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.

I wish this caution were only theoretical. It isn’t. Whatever your view on the refusal of a New York City grand jury to indict the police officer whose chokehold apparently led to the death of Eric Garner, it’s useful to remember the crime that Garner is alleged to have committed: He was selling individual cigarettes, or loosies, in violation of New York law.

The obvious racial dynamics of the case -- the police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, is white; Garner was black -- have sparked understandable outrage. But, at least among libertarians, so has the law that was being enforced. Wrote Nick Gillespie in the Daily Beast, “Clearly something has gone horribly wrong when a man lies dead after being confronted for selling cigarettes to willing buyers.” Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, appearing on MSNBC, also blamed the statute: “Some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes, so they’ve driven cigarettes underground by making them so expensive.”

The problem is actually broader. It’s not just cigarette tax laws that can lead to the death of those the police seek to arrest. It’s every law. Libertarians argue that we have far too many laws, and the Garner case offers evidence that they’re right. I often tell my students that there will never be a perfect technology of law enforcement, and therefore it is unavoidable that there will be situations where police err on the side of too much violence rather than too little. Better training won’t lead to perfection. But fewer laws would mean fewer opportunities for official violence to get out of hand.

The legal scholar Douglas Husak, in his excellent 2009 book “Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law,” points out that federal law alone includes more than 3,000 crimes, fewer than half of which found in the Federal Criminal Code. The rest are scattered through other statutes. A citizen who wants to abide by the law has no quick and easy way to find out what the law actually is -- a violation of the traditional principle that the state cannot punish without fair notice.

In addition to these statutes, he writes, an astonishing 300,000 or more federal regulations may be enforceable through criminal punishment in the discretion of an administrative agency. Nobody knows the number for sure.

Husak cites estimates that more than 70 percent of American adults have committed a crime that could lead to imprisonment. He quotes the legal scholar William Stuntz to the effect that we are moving toward “a world in which the law on the books makes everyone a felon.” Does this seem too dramatic? Husak points to studies suggesting that more than half of young people download music illegally from the Internet. That’s been a federal crime for almost 20 years. These kids, in theory, could all go to prison.

Many criminal laws hardly pass the giggle test. Husak takes us on a tour through bizarre statutes, including the Alabama law making it a crime to maim oneself for the purpose of gaining sympathy, the Florida law prohibiting displays of deformed animals, the Illinois law against “damaging anhydrous ammonia equipment.” And then there’s the wondrous federal crime of disturbing mud in a cave on federal land. (Be careful where you run to get out of the rain.) Whether or not these laws are frequently enforced, Husak’s concern is that they exist -- and potentially make felons of us all.

Part of the problem, Husak suggests, is the growing tendency of legislatures -- including Congress -- to toss in a criminal sanction at the end of countless bills on countless subjects. It’s as though making an offense criminal shows how much we care about it.

Well, maybe so. But making an offense criminal also means that the police will go armed to enforce it. Overcriminalization matters, Husak says, because the costs of facing criminal sanction are so high and because the criminal law can no longer sort out the law-abiding from the non-law-abiding. True enough. But it also matters because -- as the Garner case reminds us -- the police might kill you.

I don’t mean this as a criticism of cops, whose job after all is to carry out the legislative will. The criticism is of a political system that takes such bizarre delight in creating new crimes for the cops to enforce. It’s unlikely that the New York legislature, in creating the crime of selling untaxed cigarettes, imagined that anyone would die for violating it. But a wise legislator would give the matter some thought before creating a crime. Officials who fail to take into account the obvious fact that the laws they’re so eager to pass will be enforced at the point of a gun cannot fairly be described as public servants.

Husak suggests as one solution interpreting the Constitution to include a right not to be punished. This in turn would mean that before a legislature could criminalize a particular behavior, it would have to show a public interest significantly higher than for most forms of legislation.

He offers the example of a legislature that decides “to prohibit -- on pain of criminal liability -- the consumption of designated unhealthy foods such as doughnuts.” 1 The “rational basis test” usually applied by courts when statutes face constitutional challenge would be easily met. In short, under existing doctrine, the statute would be a permissible exercise of the police power. But if there existed a constitutional right not to be punished, the statute would have to face a higher level of judicial scrutiny, and might well be struck down -- not because of a right to eat unhealthy foods, but because of a right not to be criminally punished by the state except in matters of great importance.

Of course, activists on the right and the left tend to believe that all of their causes are of great importance. Whatever they want to ban or require, they seem unalterably persuaded that the use of state power is appropriate.

That’s too bad. Every new law requires enforcement; every act of enforcement includes the possibility of violence. There are many painful lessons to be drawn from the Garner tragedy, but one of them, sadly, is the same as the advice I give my students on the first day of classes: Don’t ever fight to make something illegal unless you’re willing to risk the lives of your fellow citizens to get your way.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-04/law-puts-us-all-in-same-danger-as-eric-garner

 

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[Greed]

Obama's Challenge: Building a Bridge Over America's Racial Divide

It is now possible to see a future where the GOP is clearly and distinctly a white party, while Democrats are a majority-minority party.

Obama's Challenge: Building a Bridge Over America's Racial Divide

 

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What is Genocide? Simple definition is when black women go have abortions. The liberals want to promote, protect and perform this murder of blacks, yet where is the outrage? 36M babies murdered...that is genocide. How many brothers and sisters had/have/will have their brains sucked out with a vacuum because the liberals say this is right...?

 

[QueEx]

What is Genocide? Simple definition is when black women go have abortions. The liberals want to promote, protect and perform this murder of blacks, yet where is the outrage? 36M babies murdered...that is genocide. How many brothers and sisters had/have/will have their brains sucked out with a vacuum because the liberals say this is right...?

Unless you are addressing each and every poster within a thread, how about quoting the material that you are responding to so that poster will know who you're talking to.

Thanks.

 

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What Anonymous Cops Are Saying Online About the Eric Garner Grand Jury

What Anonymous Cops Are Saying Online About the Eric Garner Grand Jury

by Allie Conti

The recent grand jury decisions involving civilian deaths at the hands of police officers have been like a one-two punch. Anger is still simmering in Ferguson, where a grand jury declined to indict officer Darren Wilson last month. Now that a separate grand jury has let NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo off the hook for killing Eric Garner via chokehold on Staten Island this summer, plenty of pissed-off protesters in NYC have been busy ​wreaking havoc of their own.

Bona fide and armchair activists alike have been mulling over the same question: Who the hell did they find to serve on these grand juries? Even Greta Van Susteren—a Fox News personality—doesn't get what's going on here. Of course, we'll never find out who was on the grand jury because their identities are a closely guarded secret. As such, we'll never be able to ask how they came to their decision.

But we don't have to guess what cops think about all this—law enforcement officers have their own online forums, and if you ever want to hear the other side of the debate, those are the places where you go to find it.


For instance, there's ​​Thee Rant, a forum where only verified cops can post. You can also visit ​PoliceOne, a multipurpose site where officers can both buy body cameras and debate what happened in the Eric Garner video. Although there's a possibility non-cops could be posting on PoliceOne, all the commenters claim to be cops. As you might imagine, posters are pretty secure in the idea that both Garner and Brown asked for it. And as upset as civilians are about the decision, these officers appear equally upset about what they see as the degradation of their profession in the public eye by people who don't respect their authority. Anyway, here's a sampling of how the other side thinks:

Poli​ceOne

Kenstah:

But...the media keeps saying the officer did a CHOKE HOLD, like we're the WWF or something, NOT calling it a carotid restraint like it's supposed to be called.

Burn this bitch down!

Rick445:

Okay this is bad, right. People are protesting the POLICE and honoring CRIMINALS. And now for the multiplier: "Federal Authorities will conduct their own investigation." i.e. the first one was somehow flawed. ERIC HOLDER you are HELPING tear this country apart and attempting to tarnish my profession. Look in the mirror, do the right thing and RESIGN NOW! President Obama, if he does not do the right thing, do it for him.

Aviano25

I think this is the start of the civil war several people have suspected may be coming...stay guarded brothers in blue...that's white, black, asian, etc...

DPSCanton

What officers SHOULD do is nothing. This may sound horrible, but as we all have been shown, this is the truth. Most officers don't live in the neighborhood they patrol in, so if the citizens don't care about the neighborhod [sic], why should the police? Answer calls, take reports, TAKE YOUR PAYCHECK and go home. Don't be proactive, let the neighborhood destroy itself. It's not worth our lives or our career [sic.] If people want to live among criminals, thats [sic] their choice. I hope all the businesses that burned in Ferguson relocate and do not open shop in that town again. Police can't service people who cant [sic] serve and take care of themselves, their neighborhoods, so don't even try.

SAPDMAS

I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO KEEP MY 2 SONS FROM EVER, EVER BEING LEOS [law enforcement officers]. This proffesion [sic] has been thrown under the bus and we have little to no support anymore. I will not let my sons be sacraficed for ungrateful, spoiled, hateful animals.

haziz

My 5 tips on how black and others can survive a police encounter with police are very simple and if you stop and think about it make a lot of sense: 
1.Do NOT under any circumstance ARGUE with police out in the street. You cannot win an argument with police out in the field. 
2.2. Do NOt raise your voice, but stay cool and calm. Do NOT make any quick or aggressive movements. Remember the police officer does NOT know you and will react to protect himself or those around him. 
3.Police know that hands kill, so always keep your hands in plain sight. Before you move your hands ask permission, officer I need to go into my back pocket to get my ID, is that OK with you? 
4.NEVER run from police even if you are innocent. When you run you create a heightened sense that something must be wrong here. 
5.DO NOT resist arrest – if you do one of three things is going to happen: 
a.You are going to get beat down till you stop resisting 
b.You are going to get injured or accidentally killed 
c.And you are going to have charges taken out against you.

​Thee Rant:

Da job sucks

Good bless the jurors for having common sense and not being bullied by Sharpton, Obama, holder and the rest of the racists

WasInTheBag

I was afraid this was going to be payback for Ferguson. Thankfully that wasn't the case.

ProjectKid


Thank the good Lord it happened in the Isle of Staten where there are still some working class white folks. The same situation in the bogey down would be an indictment for Murder. That's what "justice" has become. It all depends on where it happens.

HAPD

Hands up-fo chicken wings-hands up fo Obamaphones-hands up fo free cheeze. Good intelligent work on behalf of the majority of this Grand Jury. I'll be willing to wager that they can actually speak English and think and write in it also. 
As for Alwhore Sharpton Inc.-go stick yer head up a blow dryer you skull headed leech.

EddieR

F u c k Black America, their equal or worse than whites, when speaking of Racism...

F u c k Diversity, it's not working and never will work, Water and Oil don't Mix, no matter how much you try it always separates itself, Diversity only accomplishes one thing, Lazy, Dumb idiots who don't care about any Position they attain, You Listening Mr. President ?

So to summarize: At least a few cops out there think there's a war against them, that they should retaliate by not trying to help people anymore, that black people are just being racist, and that the media is incorrectly referring to the maneuver that killed Eric Garner.

Amid all of this, a cop ​killed an unarmed black man in Phoenix on Tuesday evenin​g.

UPDATE: This article has been updated to clarify that even though all the commenters claim to be cops, there's a possibility non-cops could be posting on PoliceOne.

Follow Allie Conti on Twitte​r.

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Jamaal Jones · Hollis, New York
The more I read these comments the more insight I'm given into the psyche of certain members of law enforcement. To say that certain members have a persecution complex would be an understatement. When a doctor makes mistake he may have to deal with a malpractice suit. Lawyers can be disbarred for certain behaviors or deeds. A person in any profession has to deal with consequences for incompetence especially if that incompetence involves the loss of a life. Many of the comments posted above are quite sad. The prevailing attitude seems to be "ALL or nothing." If you criticize a member of law enforcement some officers immediately get beyond defensive and say, "You don't love me because your criticizing me." There is no subtlety or nuance in other words "Don't ever say anything bad about me ever, ever, ever. We need law enforcement officers, they perform a tough job that many of us won't or can't do. However at what point do law enforcement officers say "That was wrong." I guess they don't or won't. No one forces anyone to become an police officer. I hope that future police officers have the steady temperament to exercise better judgement before they shoot. Just because people want you to stop killing unarmed people does not mean we do not love police officers or support them.
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Jared Ono · Works at University of Hawaii at Manoa
That is my exact reaction to this as well. It's almost humorous to see these quotes from these officers because at the beginning of this article I thought I would be enlightened and possibly see things from a new perspective; however, all this did was confirm everything I have previously thought about the police force. They can never accept responsibility because they are a just a giant gang, and their uniformed gang members will defend one another regardless of facts or common sense, purely because of a stupid badge and outfit. If cops really wanted people to start trusting them more then they could start by pulling their heads out of their asses and admitting when another officer did something unwarranted or straight up illegal.
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Avery Dean Gaston · Follow · Top Commenter · Bartender at Wellman's Pub & Rooftop
This article is extremely biased. I am an avid Redditor and there are police only forums. Majority of the posts are saying the cop was in the wrong with Garner, not only in the choke hold but also the lack of action when he was face down passed out. For all these ignorant negative posts the author copied, there are 100 posts saying the opposite. I actually came away with respect and hope after reading many posts.
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Sean Neil Gobbell · Follow · Top Commenter · Rancho Cordova, California
Avery Dean Gaston Reddit doesn't verify the identity of its posters though. Anyone could be subscribing to the thread and claiming to be a cop.
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dick_whiskey123· Top Commenter (signed in using yahoo)
This article is insulting to the intelligence of the informed reader. There are over 700,000 police officers in the U.S. currently. Posting a tiny sampling of a few racist officers being racist on a random police forum doesn't do anything but attempt to stir up a biased and emotional response in the reader. There are obviously problems with the criminal justice system with regards to race in this country and an ongoing dialogue is needed in order for change to come about, however irresponsible and reactionary crap journalism like this does not further that purpose (or really any purpose other than to serve as click-bait).
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Chris Murtomaki · San Diego, California
100% agreed
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Bob McDowell
Since you've discovered that the internet allows you to post your own views and information, why not enlighten us? It would be especially interesting if you used the same forums as the original article, which as you suggest must be overflowing with alternative views. Go ahead, we'll wait.
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Brandon Swords · Top Commenter · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
You know why the KKK was helping the police in Ferguson? Because the police and the KKK are comprised of the SAME PEOPLE. The modern day police evolved from a previous organization called the Slave Patrols. They've been a racist institution for over 300 years.
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Ay Lex · Top Commenter · Bard HS Early College
Cops are just as racist, ignorant, human as the rest of us, the only difference is that they have state sponsored power. Its not the cops' fault that the system that controls their actions is broken. Punish cops for having this kind of anti-community attitude and things will change. If killing an unarmed person got you fired, or charged, we would see much fewer trigger happy officers.
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Amy Larson Novak · Works at Adelson Educational Campus
...and more dead officers....with families....who work hard to provide for them. We are hard working people who take care of anyone in need. That is why cops go into the field-to help. This is a shift that has been coming down the pipe for the last 7 years as criminals have become more violent. The other day my husband was hit with a large tower fan by a schizonphrenic man. Do you consider this unarmed? BEcause the law says it is not. Just because someone does not have a gun does not mean they are unarmed. Americans have become a bunch of animals. I would challenge 20-somethings with bright eyes for the future to live a few more years as grown ups before they make their "educated", idealic, statements. That is not the real world. My husband will be the one to come home at night to us. Not someone looking to take his life or wish... See More
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Ay Lex · Top Commenter · Bard HS Early College
Amy Larson Novak what about all of the hard working officers who aren't racist or trigger happy yet have to deal with huge protests and the hatred of the communities they are supposed to be helping because a few officers like mr Wilson aren't removed from the force before killing someone's kid? Police accountability is better for police. Your husband should have nothing to fear if he is only shooting people who are actually a threat to himself and society, as opposed to unarmed minorities.
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Michael Georges · Top Commenter
Amy Larson Novak, a good cop who covers for his bad cop brethren is just as bad and culpable as a good cop.
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Whidden Flores · Top Commenter · Washington
These cops aren't making any friends calling the rest of America hateful animals and racists- just because we are too smart collectively to stand for misuse and abuse of power and prestige entrusted in a select few. Times have changed-- it's not OK to be a dick on duty. Also, all these cops seem to directly be attacking Obama and "black america". Go ahead, keep putting your foot in your mouth
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Bob Church · Top Commenter · Ohio University
I think it would be helpful to know which of the quotes came from police-only sites and which ones came from places where anyone can post.
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Whidden Flores · Top Commenter · Washington
Bob Church These forums were Police-only IE verified with a badge to be able to post. I have also reported them to the NAACP!
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Derek Dreitzler · Top Commenter · North Hennepin Community College
Bob Church naive
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James Walden · Top Commenter · SAE Institute Atlanta
The police who killed Eric Holder should be punished. But according to the evidence available, Darren Wilson was defending himself against a violent suspect. But nobody cares about the truth, they're too full of anger and hopelessness to be calm and productive. People just want to lash out and destroy to distract themselves from their own failures as human beings. They didn't even burn down a bank or anything, they burnt down local businesses and probably ruined their lives or at least forced the owners to abandon the community. The mob mentality is dangerous.
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Greg Ny · York Preparatory School
Eric Holder is the Attorney General. Your thinking of Eric Garner.
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Elliott Robinson · Top Commenter · Honolulu, Hawaii
ya, holy shit dude. If you fucked up the difference between eric holder and eric garner. Youre so dumb not only is anything you say invalid, but you really just taking up oxygen that could be used by the rest of us... And I mean that in a nice way. No trolling.
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Zach Haverkamp
Holy shit, the police killed Eric Holder?! THAT one I did not see coming.
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[Greed]

The NYPD's Insubordination—and Why the Right Should Oppose It

The NYPD's Insubordination—and Why the Right Should Oppose It
The Atlantic
By Conor Friedersdorf
December 31, 2014 6:00 AM

In New York City, "NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops," the New York Post reports, attributing the "virtual work stoppage" to rank-and-file police officers who "feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety."

The case for deploying more cops on the street in the future will be undermined.

The statistics cited suggest significant solidarity among cops. Overall arrests rates fell 66 percent "for the week starting Dec. 22 compared with the same period in 2013, stats show. Citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587, during that time frame. Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination also plunged 94 percent—from 4,831 to 300. Even parking violations are way down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241."

As a ploy in contract negotiations, this tactic may prove effective, but it puts the NYPD in an unenviable position with respect to explaining what happens next. If this significant work slowdown has basically no effect on the safety of New York City, the NYPD's prior policing will appear to have been needlessly aggressive, and the case for deploying more cops on the street in the future will be undermined. Scott Shackford zeroes in on this line from the Post article: "... cops were turning a blind eye to some minor crimes and making arrests only 'when they have to' since the execution-style shootings of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu."

He riffs:

Well, we can only hope the NYPD unions and de Blasio settle their differences soon so that the police can go back to arresting people for reasons other than "when they have to." The NYPD’s failure to arrest and cite people will also end up costing the city huge amounts of money that it won’t be able to seize from its citizens, which is likely the real point. That’s the "punishment" for the de Blasio administration for not supporting them. One has to wonder if they even understand, or care, that their "work stoppage" is giving police state critics exactly what they want—less harsh enforcement of the city’s laws.​

That's how some policing reformers see it. Others, like me, don't object to strictly enforcing laws against, say, public urination, traffic violations, or illegal parking, but would love it if the NYPD stopped frisking innocents without probable cause or even reasonable suspicion, needlessly escalating encounters with civilians, and (especially) killing unarmed people, goals that are perfectly compatible with data-driven policing that targets actual disorder. Keep squeegee men at bay—and leave innocent black and Hispanic men alone.

What if the "broken windows" theory is correct and the work slowdown causes an increase in disorder and thus more serious crime? The NYPD will have put the safety and perhaps even the lives of New Yorkers in jeopardy to punish a politician for purportedly disrespecting them. Such a course might succeed in decreasing de Blasio's popularity. But the public is unlikely to think that willfully putting New Yorkers in jeopardy to settle a political score is a forgivable tactic. It is certainly at odds with the notion that NYPD officers represent "New York's finest," heroes who willingly sacrifice themselves to protect and serve.

Due to de Blasio's progressive politics and the political right's reflexive "law and order" alliance with police, many conservatives are siding with the NYPD in its standoff with de Blasio. AlterNet reports that it has emails "revealing plans to organize a series of anti-de Blasio protests around the city" that are "billed as a non-partisan movement in support of 'the men and women of the NYPD'" but actually orchestrated "by a cast of NYPD union bosses and local Republican activists allied with Rudy Giuliani." The first rally is planned for January 13.

What's unfolding in New York is, at its core, a public-employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional appeals to rile public employees into insubordination.

The right should greet it with the skepticism they'd typically summon for a rally on behalf of government workers as they seek higher pay, new work rules, and more generous benefits. What's unfolding in New York City is, at its core, a public-employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional appeals to rile public employees into insubordination. The implied threat to the city's elected leadership and electorate is clear: Cede leverage to the police in the course of negotiating labor agreements or risk an armed, organized army rebelling against civilian control. Such tactics would infuriate the right if deployed by any bureaucracy save law enforcement opposing a left-of-center mayor.

It ought to infuriate them now. Instead, too many are permitting themselves to be baited into viewing discord in New York City through the distorting lens of the culture war, so much so that Al Sharpton's name keeps coming up as if he's at the center of all this. Poppycock. Credit savvy police union misdirection. They're turning conservatives into their useful idiots. If the NYPD succeeds in bullying de Blasio into submission, the most likely consequence will be a labor contract that cedes too much to union negotiators, whether unsustainable pensions of the sort that plague local finances all over the U.S., work rules that prevent police commanders from running the department efficiently, or arbitration rules that prevent the worst cops from being fired. Meanwhile, Al Sharpton will be fine no matter what happens. Will the law-and-order right remain blinded by tribalism or grasp the real stakes before it's too late? Look to National Review and City Journal before laying odds.

https://news.yahoo.com/nypds-insubordination-why-oppose-110000478.html

 

[Greed]

Inspector general: Some NY police use chokehold as first response

Inspector general: Some NY police use chokehold as first response
Reuters
By Barbara Goldberg
January 12, 2015 6:17 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new inspector general blasted the New York City Police Department on Monday for failing to punish officers who used banned chokeholds on citizens, sometimes as a first response in a confrontation.

The first official report by police Inspector General Philip Eure comes a month after New York was shaken first by a grand jury's decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner and then by the killing of two NYPD officers by a gunman avenging the Staten Island man's death.

It looked at 10 recent cases in which the NYPD's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims, concluded officers used chokeholds, which are banned by Police Department regulations. The cases were investigated between 2009 and July 2014 and do not include Garner's death on July 17, 2014.

Among the 10 cases was a Bronx high school student who was walking away from school officials disciplining her on Jan. 8, 2008, and was placed in a chokehold by a police officer assigned to the building, the report said.

Another was a man "rapping" with friends in front of a city low-income housing building in Brooklyn on Aug. 26, 2009, who made a comment to passing police officers and was placed in a headlock that restricted his breathing, the report said.

In nearly all cases studied, the CCRB recommended the most serious level of discipline, administrative charges, but ultimately none of the cases resulted in the charges being filed. Instead, the NYPD imposed punishments typically ranging from Police Academy training to loss of vacation days to no discipline at all.

"NYPD largely rejected CCRB's findings and recommendations and, thus, mooted CCRB's role in the process," the report said.

"The police commissioner routinely rejected CCRB's disciplinary recommendations in substantiated chokehold cases without explanation," it said.

Harsh criticism was leveled at officers who, in several of the cases studied, used chokeholds "as a first act of physical force in response to verbal resistance, as opposed to first attempting to defuse the situation."

Mayor Bill de Blasio, accused of contributing to an anti-police climate, said the report predates his coming to office a year ago.

"I believe it refers to things that have already begun to change," de Blasio said.

The president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association police union, Patrick Lynch, who blamed de Blasio for tensions with police, noted the report promised a wider investigation in the future to determine whether the problem is systemic.

Until then, Lynch said in a statement, the initial findings should only be viewed as 10 isolated cases that reveal "the dysfunction and anti-police bias that is rampant in the investigations conducted by the CCRB."

https://news.yahoo.com/inspector-general-ny-police-chokehold-first-response-191103188.html

 

[Greed]

Mayor calls for end to mugshots used in target training

Mayor calls for end to mugshots used in target training
Rebecca Savransky
01/19/2015 8:23 PM
| Updated: 01/19/2015 8:59 PM

North Miami Beach Mayor George Vallejo called the practice of using mugshots for target training “offensive and unacceptable” in a statement released Monday.

The statement comes after the city’s police department was roundly criticized for using mugshots of African American men for sniper training. Valerie Deant, a sergeant with the Florida Army National Guard, found her brother’s mugshot in the garbage at the Medley shooting range last month. The Guard followed the North Miami Beach police unit at the range.

Deant brought the matter to the department’s attention.

In response, North Miami Beach police chief J. Scott Dennis suspended the sniper training program and called for review of the practice.

On Monday, Vallejo said he wanted to permanently ban this type of training. North Miami Beach has a council-manager form of government; the mayor would need support from his fellow council members to enact any ordinance.

“North Miami Beach is better than this,” he said in the statement. “We are a richly diverse city, a fact our residents are very proud of, and as Mayor I will not allow anything to disrupt the harmony and goodwill that exists in our community.”

The police department also reacted Monday, after Deant‘s family spoke to reporters Sunday.

“We regret that this one incident could have set back the progress we have made,” the statement said. “We will strive to be more sensitive to all and remain focused on being a community-mindful police department. We see this challenge as an opportunity to examine all policies within our police department.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...north-miami/article7620416.html#storylink=cpy

 

[SPECTRE1]

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Open admission of guilt, the first time I have heard from liberal media using genocide and prison together.

 

[Greed]

Why are police changing Wikipedia entries on controversial police action?

Why are police changing Wikipedia entries on controversial police action?

Members of the NYPD may have edited multiple Wikipedia entries regarding controversial police action.
By Samantha Laine
March 13, 2015 4:08 PM

Computers on the New York Police Department’s network have been used to change the Wikipedia pages of multiple cases of controversial police brutality, according to Capital New York.

Using the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of One Police Plaza –NYPD’s headquarters location – Capital was able to link multiple changes to Wikipedia pages. The addresses were used to determine the location of a computer when it connects to the internet. According to the report, 85 NYPD IP addresses have been used to alter Wikipedia pages pertaining to police leadership, stop-and-frisk, and NYPD scandals, as well as the well-known victims of police altercations including Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo.

Is it acceptable for the NYPD to update Wikipedia pages in which there may be a conflict of interest?

Many of the edits made are subtle, changing the wording and structure of the sentences to portray the events in a different light. For example, after a Staten Island grand jury ruled not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Eric Garner’s death, a user on the network reportedly made multiple edits to the “Death of Eric Garner” Wikipedia page.

One such edit included changing the phrase "Garner raised both his arms in the air" to "Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke." Another edit included changing pushing "Garner’s face into the sidewalk" to "Garner’s head down into the sidewalk." Another sentence—"Garner, who was considerably larger than any of the officers, continued to struggle with them"—was added to the entry.

"The matter is under internal review," an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital.

Anyone can make edits to a Wikipedia, either anonymously or with a username. In order to track anonymous edits, Wikipedia assigns them a profile based on their IP addresses, enabling users to track all edits made by the One Police Plaza network.

After Capital New York broke the story, the Twitter handle @NYPDedits was created to keep track of all future edits made on the network. Thus far, the profile has over 770 followers but has yet to tweet. Others have taken to Twitter to express their frustration.

They're even still lying about Amadou Diallo. SIXTEEN YEARS LATER NYPD still can't bear for anyone to know the truth. http://t.co/4GsE0SpIh3— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) March 13, 2015

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it" - Winston Churchill Same logic, NYPD edits Wikipedia pages on Eric Garner & others.— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 13, 2015

The NYPD is a hugely successful organized crime syndicate.— Anonymous (@AnonyOps) March 13, 2015

While Wikipedia enables anyone to edit and contribute to pages, they strongly discourage editing pages in which there may be a conflict of interest, which they define as “an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor.”

“COI editing is strongly discouraged. It risks causing public embarrassment to the individuals and groups being promoted, and if it causes disruption to the encyclopedia, accounts may be blocked,” Wikipedia’s page states.

Whether or not the NYPD’s editing of the pages is a true “conflict of interest” will be for Wikipedia to decide.

http://news.yahoo.com/why-police-ch...es-controversial-police-action-200832228.html

 

[Mr. Bizkits]

Re: Why are police changing Wikipedia entries on controversial police action?

The concept of white supremacy is well funded and well defended, especially in New York in regards to Eric Garner.

 

[SPECTRE1]

Gunshot detectors coming to NYC neighborhoods


New York says it has installed outdoor microphones in some of the City's most violent neighborhoods so that police can more easily detect the location of gunshots. ShotSpotter, the company behind the technology, says the microphones will be located throughout neighborhoods so that a gunshot can be detected as soon as it happens.

The location of the gunshot is determined through triangulation. This information is immediately transferred to police officers so they can respond as soon as the crime has occurred, according to the company.
"This new gunshot detection system is going to do a world of good in going after the bad guys," said Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, the largest city to implement the technology. "When something happens, we're going to know about it instantly. The ShotSpotter goes online today in The Bronx, and next week in Brooklyn."

According to ShotSpotter and the NYPD, many people who live in crime-ridden neighborhoods do not call 911 when they hear gunshots, and even when they do, they often can't pinpoint where the shots were coming from. De Blasio said that, with the microphones, response time will be hastened and information will be transferred to police so quickly that it's going to "revolutionize policing." He also said it will deter crime.

While New York City recently experienced a historic drop in crime, the NYPD has reported a 22% increase in shooting incidents year to date. New York City has experienced 165 shooting incidents so far this year, compared to 136 during the same period last year. Police Commissioner William Bratton said the seven precincts in the Bronx and the 10 precincts in Brooklyn where ShotSpotter is being implemented were selected based on the number of shootings in those neighborhoods. He said the technology should be a valuable tool in protecting police officers, as well as civilians.

ShotSpotter, based in Newark, Calif., has already implemented its technology in more than 90 cities, including Detroit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Denver, Savannah, Ga., Trenton, N.J., and also Cape Town in South Africa.

The company declined to comment on how much the New York system costs.

NYC is gettimg smarter. Hopefully Ferguson goes through something like this once they get rid of their political leadership. This technology has been out since at least 2007. If you are concerned about crime, why not use this?

 

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75% drop in crime.

You can also integrate personal alarms or yelling help loudly that this system could triangulate.

 

[Greed]

Video of fatal police shooting may have major impact

Video of fatal police shooting may have major impact
Associated Press
By DAVID CRARY
36 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Graphic videos have surfaced previously that kindled outrage over police use of force — the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, last year's chokehold death in New York City. The new video from South Carolina is perhaps the most striking yet — its depiction of a fleeing, unarmed black man being shot in the back by a white policeman so vivid that a murder charge came swiftly.

"I have watched the video and I was sickened by what I saw," Eddie Driggers, the North Charleston police chief, said on Wednesday. The officer who fired the eight shots, Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager, has been fired and charged with killing 50-year-old Walter Lamer Scott after a routine traffic stop.

Key questions remained about the 3-minute video, taken by a person whose identity has not been made public. Are there gaps in its portrayal of Saturday's incident? What was the chain of custody as the video made its way to the media and then to local authorities?

Yet what was depicted on the video — and subsequently viewed by untold millions worldwide — may have a profound impact.

"In the African-American community, we've known of episodes like this for decades, but until there's graphic video like this, our stories have not been believed," said Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor of criminal law at Georgetown.

"Now people are seeing what we're talking about ... how police literally treat black people like non-human animals," Butler said.

The video, provided to the dead man's family and lawyer by a witness later identified as Feidin Santana in an interview with NBC News, shows Slager dropping his stun gun, pulling out his handgun and firing at Scott as he runs away. Scott falls after the eighth shot, fired after a brief pause.

Scott's father, Walter Scott Sr., said the policeman "looked like he was trying to kill a deer running through the woods."

The family's lawyer, Chris Stewart, commended the person who shot the video.

"He came forward to the family because what he witnessed he just knew was wrong," Stewart said.

Shot over a chain link fence and through some trees, the video begins after Scott has left his car. Slager follows him, reaching at the man with an object that appears to be a Taser stun gun. As Scott pulls away, the object falls to the ground, and Slager pulls out his handgun as Scott runs away. There is no indication that Scott was ordered to halt or surrender.

The final shot sends Scott falling face-down. Slager walks toward him and orders Scott to put his hands behind his back, but the man doesn't move. Slager pulls Scott's arms back and cuffs his hands, walks back to where he fired the shots, picks up the object that fell to the ground and returns to Scott's body, dropping the object near Scott's feet as another officer enters the scene.

Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon suggested that investigators would have ascertained Slager's culpability without the video, but the images made their job easier.

"Like the family attorney said, once that video came out, things moved quickly," Cannon said.

The swift and forceful response contrasted sharply with how events unfolded after the Rodney King beating and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City last July

King's 1991 beating by club-wielding Los Angeles police officers was depicted in a videotape made by a man who witnessed the incident from his balcony. After four officers were acquitted in a state trial, the Justice Department filed federal civil rights charges and won convictions against two of them in 1993.

In the Garner case, a grand jury decided not to indict Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was involved in the fatal confrontation with the 350-pound black man. A video shot by a bystander showed Pantaleo trying to arrest Garner on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes, then wrapping his arm around Garner's neck and — along with other officers — pulling him to the ground.

Garner can be heard repeatedly saying, "I can't breathe," before he goes limp. A medical examiner later ruled that a chokehold, along with Garner's poor health, resulted in his death.

In another explosive case last year — the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri — there was no video of the fatal shots. As in the Garner case, a grand jury declined to indict the officer.

The North Charleston case intensified the ongoing national discussion about use of body cameras by police officers.

State Sen. Marlon Kimpson, whose district includes North Charleston, said Wednesday he hopes the shooting helps to advance a bill he is co-sponsoring that would require all South Carolina police officers to wear body cameras.

In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the new video as "awfully hard to watch" and suggested that greater use of body cameras could help improve community/police relations.

"Even the investigators themselves have acknowledged that when this video evidence was presented, that it changed the way that they were looking at this case," Earnest said. "I do think that is an example of how body cameras worn by police officers could have a positive impact in terms of building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities that they serve."

In New York City, which was shaken both by the Garner case and the recent killing of two police officers, Mayor Bill DeBlasio described the South Carolina video as "so disturbing and so painful." He said it fueled his interest in expanding the use of police body cameras in New York.

"We're seeing things in a different light now that we have so much more video," he said. "Things in the past that may have been mischaracterized, we're now seeing very starkly, very honestly. And I believe that will lead to progress."

Paul Butler, the Georgetown professor, said use of a body camera in North Charleston might possibly have spared Scott's life.

"They make both police and civilians treat each other better, because they know they are being recorded," he said. "If the police officer knew he was on camera, he may have been deterred from firing his weapon at a fleeing suspect."

http://news.yahoo.com/video-fatal-sc-police-shooting-may-major-impact-205905248.html

 

[Greed]

New York’s Police Force Criminalized So Many Blacks, It Struggles for Diverse Hires

New York’s Police Force Criminalized So Many Blacks, It Struggles for Diverse Hires
By Rebecca McCray, Daniela Franco | Takepart.com
June 10, 2015 3:00 PM
Takepart.com

Earlier this week, William Bratton, commissioner of New York City’s police department, raised eyebrows by bemoaning the challenge of hiring black police officers. “We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton told The Guardian in an interview published on Tuesday. The commissioner then acknowledged this smaller applicant pool is, in part, one of the “unfortunate consequences” of controversial policing strategies such as stopping, frisking, and interrogating people on the street. Studies and lawsuits have found this NYPD strategy disproportionately affects people of color—particularly young black and Latino men.

Roughly 16 percent of the NYPD’s officers are black, while roughly 26 percent of New York City residents are black. Meanwhile, black New York City residents comprise more than half of all street stops and interrogations each year.

Criminal records pose an undeniable barrier to employment in law enforcement and other industries. While there is a growing movement throughout the U.S. to prevent employers from requiring applicants to disclose past convictions by “banning the box,” the practice remains pervasive.

So, Why Should You Care? This creates a formidable challenge for former offenders when attempting to reintegrate into society. It also perpetuates a dangerous cycle in which an ex-offender, left with no other viable options, is more likely to return to a life of crime and incarceration.

Bratton’s contentious comment also calls into question the NYPD’s efforts to recruit black officers. As incidents of excessive and fatal use of force by white police officers against black citizens across the U.S. have driven news reports and federal government investigations, the diversity of local police departments has also fallen under scrutiny. One example is Ferguson, Missouri, where last summer black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white officer. Sixty-seven percent of Ferguson’s residents are black, but the city’s police force remains 89 percent white. Experts say this demographic mismatch may aggravate tensions between police and the communities they serve.

“If you want your department to be diverse, you’ve got to get creative to recruit people of color,” Rochelle Bilal, vice chair of the National Black Police Association, told TakePart. Bilal said that while growing up in a rough neighborhood in North Philadelphia, she did not like police. “In the 1980s, the police used to run through my neighborhood like it was a place to just beat people up,” she said.

Her perception changed when a group of black officers came to her community to talk to her about the job. “They started talking to us and relating to us how if you want to make a change, you can do that on the job,” Bilal said. “So I took a second look at the police.” Eventually, she joined Philadelphia’s police force and worked as an officer for 27 years before retiring in 2013.

In 2013, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that an estimated 605,000 people are employed on a full-time basis in the country’s more than 12,000 local police departments. Out of those people, about 58,000 are black. That population has grown barely 5 percent since 2007. Despite the small gains, these numbers demonstrate that nationwide, black people are not being hired with frequency by local police departments.

To join the NYPD, applicants must go through a lengthy process. If someone has a criminal record, he or she is automatically taken off the applicant list. Other charges such as summonses do not disqualify an applicant, although repeated minor offenses can.

Because of the NYPD’s reputation of stopping a disproportionate number of African American and Hispanic New York residents, it’s hard to imagine how the job might appeal to young people of color. “You have to send real people with real stories to tell to reach out to people of color,” Bilal said. “You turn people off from even looking at policing as something they’d want to do with policies that mistreat and disrespect people of color.”

http://news.yahoo.com/nypds-policin...lacks-department-now-struggles-190007360.html

 

[MASTERBAKER]

Uncut video shows NYPD's Daniel Pantaleo putting Eric Garner in fatal chokehold — WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT 7/12/15

http://nydn.us/1LYrYEM

original thread---The Murder of Eric Garner! [MERGED]07-22-2014, 02:05 AM

http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=806613&highlight=Eric+Garner

Loathed, threatened and a pariah, Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in fatal chokehold, is ready to get back on job 7/12/15

http://nydn.us/1Hn4ciI

In precinct where Eric Garner was killed, arrests have fallen, but 'all hell breaks loose' at night, locals say

http://nydn.us/1Hn8u9Q

WHERE WAS THE HELP? An EMS officer could have saved Eric Garner

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YEAR WITH NO JUSTICE: Eric Garner's family still awaits closure as $75 million lawsuit and federal investigation loom

http://nydn.us/1RqsgZJ

 

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Uncut video shows NYPD's Daniel Pantaleo putting Eric Garner in fatal chokehold — WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT 7/12/15

http://nydn.us/1LYrYEM

original thread---The Murder of Eric Garner! [MERGED]07-22-2014, 02:05 AM

http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=806613&highlight=Eric+Garner

Loathed, threatened and a pariah, Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in fatal chokehold, is ready to get back on job 7/12/15

http://nydn.us/1Hn4ciI

In precinct where Eric Garner was killed, arrests have fallen, but 'all hell breaks loose' at night, locals say

http://nydn.us/1Hn8u9Q

WHERE WAS THE HELP? An EMS officer could have saved Eric Garner

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YEAR WITH NO JUSTICE: Eric Garner's family still awaits closure as $75 million lawsuit and federal investigation loom

http://nydn.us/1RqsgZJ