Mayor Asshole, I mean Bloomberg, sez 'stop & frisk" targets whites

[cali]

Mayor Bloomberg: NYPD ‘Stops Whites Too Much And Minorities Too Little’

ew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the police department’s controversial stop and frisk program during a radio interview on Friday morning, and complained that the NYPD was stopping too many white people.

The comment was made during an interview with WOR-NY host John Gambling, who questioned the mayor about some of the troubling statistics of the city’s stop and frisk program and the city’s falling murder rate. In response, Bloomberg attacked critics of the NYPD and came out in favor of racial profiling:

One newspaper and one news service, they just keep saying ‘oh it’s a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group.’ That may be, but it’s not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the [crime]. In that case, incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little. It’s exactly the reverse of what they’re saying. I don’t know where they went to school, but they certainly didn’t take a math course. Or a logic course.

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The statistics are overwhelming. An independent study of the city’s stop-and-frisk program found that 87 percent of the 685,724 stops in 2011 — a record high — were of blacks and latinos. Young black men between the ages of 14 and 24 were stopped 106% of the time — as in, there were more stops of young black men than the entire population of young black men.

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/28/2231761/mayor-bloomberg-nypd-stop-whites-too-much-and-minorities-too-little/

[wercal]

1. I am shocked that stop and frisk has not gotten more national attention