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eridani

(51,907 posts) Wed Jul 16, 2014, 06:06 AM Jul 2014

NO connection between #StopandFrisk & shootings in NYC

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Bias-based policing is not the answer - NO connection between #StopandFrisk & shootings! #ChangetheNYPD

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NO connection between #StopandFrisk & shootings in NYC (Original Post) eridani Jul 2014 OP

Get thee to the greatest page malaise Jul 2014 #1

What those graphs say to me is that REDUCING stops correlates to REDUCED shootings. Squinch Jul 2014 #2

It may not prove a positive correlation... MannyGoldstein Jul 2014 #3

The reason D.C. passed mj decriminalization RainDog Jul 2014 #4

malaise

(268,997 posts)

1. Get thee to the greatest page

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Wed Jul 16, 2014, 06:22 AM

Jul 2014

Well worthy of a discussion

Squinch

(50,949 posts)

2. What those graphs say to me is that REDUCING stops correlates to REDUCED shootings.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Wed Jul 16, 2014, 07:25 AM

Jul 2014

Yes, yes, I understand that there is probably not a causal relationship. Still, it looks like that.

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

3. It may not prove a positive correlation...

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 16, 2014, 07:47 AM

Jul 2014

But it certainly tends to disprove a negative correlation, i.e., more stops = fewer shootings.

RainDog

(28,784 posts)

4. The reason D.C. passed mj decriminalization

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Wed Jul 16, 2014, 07:53 AM

Jul 2014

was to stop providing police officers a legal way to harass African Americans, who are overwhelmingly targeted by stop and frisk, as well.

This is the rationale for decriminalization across the nation since the pattern holds everywhere - African Americans are targeted for stop, frisk and arrest, while they are no more likely to use or possess marijuana than a white person.

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