Off duty, black cops in New York feel threatened by fellow police officers

[ellenrr]

What’s emerging now is that, within the thin blue line of the NYPD, there is another divide – between black and white officers.

Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.

The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/off-duty-black-cops-in-new-york-feel-threatened-by-fellow-police-officers/

[DeSwiss]

1. K&R

- The thin blue line turns out to actually be just another white one.......

[Android3.14]

5. Ain't that the truth

Does that make the cops worse than, or simply an extension of, the problems of race disparity in our culture?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Been going on for a long time

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregion/31friendly.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Instinctual judgments about race and crime are woven into the culture of the streets. “We tend to pretend in the police force that we don’t see race, we don’t see ethnicity, but we do,” said Senator Adams, the former police captain. “One of my cops once said that if he sees a non-uniformed black man with a gun, he takes precautions for himself; if he sees a white guy with a gun, he takes precautions for both because he knows it could be a fellow cop.”

[Enthusiast]

3. Kicked and recommended! There ya go. Even NYC police officers feel profiled and in danger.

Fuck you, Giuliani.

[TheKentuckian]

4. I thought it was only "thugs" and "lawbreakers" that had any reason for concern from "overzealous"

police.

Guess what it really means is "thug" and "lawbreakers" is just lame code for black. Like how some refer to President Obama as "the head thug" when whatever else one thinks of the man, he has nary a thuggish bone in his body.

That shit is just the new "nigger" and nothing more. Totally interchangeable.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. It's strange how that came about;

I mean using the word "thug" in a racial context. I've always used the word sparingly. I know people from the cream of society and I know people who deal drugs and have spent most of their lives in prison. When I call a person a thug, I mean someone who works for a drug dealer or other underworld character and breaks bones for a living. That's always what I thought a thug was. Now it seems that any poor person, especially a black poor person, with a bad attitude can be a thug. Of course, it doesn't help that some rappers brag about being thugs and people sell merchandise that says "thug life" on it. Most of the people calling themselves thugs are poseurs and most of the people calling other people whom they don't know thugs are clueless racists. I wish more people could see that.

[ellenrr]

8. Who are the real thugs? The bankers who deliberately enroll people in mortgages

they can't manage, so they can take their property?

The Water Company in Detroit which turned off water to 40% of Detroiters?-
NO water. You know what that means? I didn't have water once when the water heater broke for 4 days. Can't cook, Can't use the toilet,
They haven't had water for MONTHS?

How about the well-heeled, well-dressed, well-spoken people who manipulate the price of food while millions starve?

I could go on, but you get the idea.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. Anybody who cuts off someone's water is worse than a thug.

That kind of shit is inhuman, in my opinion.

[ellenrr]

10. Agree, and Detroiters are not taking this quietly..

there is a huge organized resistance movement-
search "Detroit Water Brigade"

[polly7]

12. +1000 nt.

[TheKentuckian]

13. I don't believe "bad attitude" has much to anything to do with it either.

They refer to President Obama as "the head thug" and if anything he is too genteel and mealy mouthed for my tastes, to willing and quick to compromise with evil.

Whatever you think of the man, I'm hard pressed to take anyone seriously if their contention is he has a "bad attitude". The dude is about as civil as can be imagined and he is "head thug" from the ones who throw thug around.

No, it is just "nigger" for the early 21st century from the same assholes that weren't long ago were whining angrily about not being "allowed" to say "nigger" any more "but black gangster rappers can say it all the time and they don't get in trouble" because this really stepped on their toes and judge not and all that jazz.

[safeinOhio]

6. When I was a young teen, our class

read Black Like Me. If that is not required reading anymore, it should be.

[ellenrr]

11. I was also a youngster when I read that, and it made a huge impression. nt