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At least one of the officers on the scene at the time of Breonna Taylor’s killing was wearing a body camera in Louisville.
The NYPD had a decades-old chokehold ban in place at the time of Eric Garner’s asphyxiation at the hands of the NYPD.
Etc. https://twitter.com/mr2ed/status/1330659365611823105
At least one of the officers on the scene at the time of Breonna Taylor’s killing was wearing a body camera in Louisville.
The NYPD had a decades-old chokehold ban in place at the time of Eric Garner’s asphyxiation at the hands of the NYPD.
Etc. https://twitter.com/mr2ed/status/1330659365611823105
More diverse cops? At the peak of NYPD’s stop-and-frisk (2011), cops made *684,000* stops.
abt NINETY PERCENT of those were of Black + Latino citizens; there were more stops of Black teenage boys in NYC than there *were* Black teenage boys in NYC.
The NYPD? Mostly nonwhite.
abt NINETY PERCENT of those were of Black + Latino citizens; there were more stops of Black teenage boys in NYC than there *were* Black teenage boys in NYC.
The NYPD? Mostly nonwhite.
My fault. I misquoted the stat on teenage boys. it’s been a minute.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/212460-city-teenagers-say-stop-and-frisk-all-about-race-and-class/
https://www.wnyc.org/story/212460-city-teenagers-say-stop-and-frisk-all-about-race-and-class/
But again, we should be asking in every convo about “reform” what putative problem the proposed reform is meant to fix and *how* it will do that. Is there evidence to suggest it works?
As we saw in LA, much-touted reforms to reduce police killings coincided with a spike in police *beatings.*
that’s a win because people are alive; it doesn’t change the fact that police contact is itself dangerous.
that’s a win because people are alive; it doesn’t change the fact that police contact is itself dangerous.
Reform conversations always start from the position that police contact for certain populations isn’t just inevitable but preferable, and what we should be doing is changing the formal execution of that contact.
The premises are never about taking that contact off the table.
The premises are never about taking that contact off the table.
ah! the "young black males" stat wasn't wrong, just messed up the age range:
"...the number of young black men (aged 14 to 24) stopped by police exceeded the city's population of young black men - 168,126 stops compared with a population of 158,406." https://bbc.in/3lYXOHM
"...the number of young black men (aged 14 to 24) stopped by police exceeded the city's population of young black men - 168,126 stops compared with a population of 158,406." https://bbc.in/3lYXOHM
people keep responding to this thread to suggest different hiring standards.
what hiring standards would keep Black people and Latino people and Native people and Muslims from being stopped and questioned and surveilled by cops if those were departmental imperatives?
what hiring standards would keep Black people and Latino people and Native people and Muslims from being stopped and questioned and surveilled by cops if those were departmental imperatives?
