Bloomberg on stop-and-frisk: "We disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little”

[waffled_flambe]

Pushing back against critics of stop-and-frisk policing, Mayor Bloomberg Friday said it could be argued that the Police Department stops white people too many times and non-whites too little.The comments - made one day after the City Council passed two bills to rein in the controversial police tactic - touched off a firestorm of criticism

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[ntensity]

Wow. Just, wow.

[robintheshrew]

mte, Natasha

[martyfan]

+1

[amber_protocol]

+2

[skizzylizard]

Dammit Bloomberg I try so hard to like you and you make it IMPOSSIBLE

[nesmith]

Okay, so the numbers show whites are in the tiny minority for being stopped and yet he thinks too many are stopped? WTF kind of bullshit logic is that?

[thelilyqueen]

Especially when, isn't there some figure that stop-and-searches on whites and their vehicles are substantially MORE likely to find illegal drugs or other contraband than those on blacks or Latin@s?

[roseofjuly]

Yes.

[that_which]

Michael Bloomberg is a "centrist" who has for years managed to buy the political friendship of prominent fake liberals (and the prayerful attention of both the McCain and Obama campaigns) by pretending to be above party and by donating what amounts to the change behind his sofa cushions to Good Causes

[tsu_]

ia

Bloomberg only cares about one colour in his party: GREEN. (holla for that dolla' baby)

[roseofjuly]

This comment is so accurate, especially the playground for green people. New York has changed a lot, and it's mostly changed towards tourism and generating dollars for business. I was thinking the other day that I rarely have to step over dog shit on 5th but I am always stepping over dog shit in Washington Heights. Just riding the bus from the UWS through Morningside Heights and into Harlem and the Heights, and watching the astonishing changes in quality, is so fucked up.