Mayor Bloomberg: NYPD ‘Stops Whites Too Much And Minorities Too Little’
Source: Think Progress
New 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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Bloomberg was echoing a similar argument made by the city’s lawyer last month during closing arguments in the civil suit brought against the NYPD and the Bloomberg administration. But the judge in the case called that rationale a “worrisome argument,” and civil rights groups have argued that the city’s stop-and-frisk program is unconstitutional. The U.S. Department of Justice has said that if the judge rules against the NYPD, they would seek to install an independent monitor to oversee the police department.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/28/2231761/mayor-bloomberg-nypd-stop-whites-too-much-and-minorities-too-little/
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