07-19-2016, 11:02 AM
(07-19-2016, 03:42 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: Show me where police are targeting blacks just because the color of their skin, and it has to take into consideration where they "targeted" the black person (high crime rate area / low crime crate area).
East St Louis police officers admit they were told to target black people at malls.
NYC "stop and frisk" program targeted blacks at a much higher rate than whites. Had nothing to do with the crime rate in that area.
2009 study of traffic stops in West Virgina found "on a statewide basis, black drivers are over 1 1/2 times (1.68 to be exact) more likely to be pulled over than white drivers. Hispanic drivers are just under 1 1/2 times (1.48) more likely to be pulled over than white drivers.
Some might argue these results don't prove the existence of racial profiling. Indeed, there could be any number of reasons people get pulled over notwithstanding their race; and if all the information we had were the rates at which minority drivers were pulled over in comparison to that of white drivers, we would not be able to prove much.
Our study went further into law enforcement practices, documenting what happened after a person had been pulled over by police. Specifically, the collection process (as has been the case with other ACLU studies of this kind) documented the vehicles searched, whether any illegal contraband was found, and the authority used to perform said vehicle search (consent versus probable cause.) With the information collected in these categories, those who deny the existence of racial profiling had better buckle their seat belts, because the road of denial gets increasingly bumpy when confronted with the jarringly disproportionate levels at which minorities are targeted for roadside searches in West Virginia.
All told, on a statewide basis, black and Hispanic drivers are nearly 2 1/2 times more likely (2.45 and 2.37 respectively) to be searched once pulled over than white drivers on West Virginia roads. The fact the disproportion not only carries over, but increases from the rate of roadside stops to roadside searches of minority drivers, leaves little wiggle room concerning the existence of racial profiling."
2003-2004 study in Los Angeles "after controlling for violent and property crime rates in specific LAPD reporting districts, as well as a range of other variables, It is implausible that higher frisk and search rates are justified by higher minority criminality, when these frisks and searches are substantially less likely to uncover weapons, drugs or other types of contraband."
