In Poll, Majority of New Yorkers Say Police Favor White People
Source: NY Times
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and MARJORIE CONNELLY
A significant majority of New Yorkers say the Police Department favors whites over blacks, according to a new poll by The New York Times.
That position, reaching levels seen in 2000 during the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, runs particularly strong among black New Yorkers, 80 percent of whom say the police favor one race over the other. A plurality of white residents 48 percent agree.
Concern about police favoritism comes at a time of widespread publicity over the departments extensive practice of stopping, questioning and, in many instances, frisking people on the citys streets. Last year, the police made nearly 700,000 stops; about 85 percent of those stopped were black or Hispanic.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/nyregion/64-of-new-yorkers-in-poll-say-police-favor-whites.html?hp
Orrex
(63,228 posts)I mean, what a revelation.
Orrex
(63,228 posts)Didn't mean to suggest that you were unaware of this fact--I was snarking at the article itself.
choie
(4,111 posts)I knew what you meant - it does seem to be a "water is wet" type of revelation.
starroute
(12,977 posts)That wouldn't have been true even a little while ago, when the comfortably middle class would have said that the cops were just doing their job against criminal elements and that it had nothing to do with racial profiling.
Orrex
(63,228 posts)I lack the perspective to understand the sentiment in New York and was projecting the idea over a wider sample size.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)actually understand it. Since they haven't, until now, and have supported NYPD policy.
Such as it is: progress.