09-28-2020, 03:13 PM
(09-25-2020, 04:12 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: No it's not. Do individual officers sometimes engage in a tactic that could fall under the definition of racial profiling, sure. Is it systemic in law enforcement no. So, not a fact.
Actually there is a lot of proof that it is actual policy carried out by entire agencies instead of just individuals.
The most famous case is in New York City where Mayor Bloomberg admitted that his "stop and frisk" policy targeted minorities and were not based on any probably cause. The lack of probable cause was born out by the fact that 85% of the stops resulted in no criminal charges. 90% of the people stopped were minorities while they only made up 54% of the population of the city.
Police officers in St. Louis County admit to the department racially profiling blacks at a local mall back in 2013.
In 1999 New Jersey's Chief of Troopers was fired after admitting that drivers were racially profiled because "most drug dealers are minorities"
In 1985 Florida Dept of Highway Safety issued guidelines for making traffic stops based on "ethnic groups associated with drug trade"
In 1986 as part of Operation Pipeline the DEA issued guidelines to use pretext stops to target minorities.
In 1995 Eagle County paid $800,000 in damages in 1995 to black and Latino motorists stopped on Interstate 70 solely because they fit a drug courier profile. The payment settled a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of 402 people stopped between August 1988 and August 1990 on I-70 between Eagle and Glenwood Springs, none of whom were ticketed or arrested for drugs.
In Avon, Connecticut former police officers corroborated the existence of the long-rumored "Barkhamsted Express," a slang term for the routine stopping of black and Hispanic motorists traveling through town from Hartford to the Barkhamsted reservoir.
In 1993 the chief of the all white police force of Trumbull Connecticut issued a memo for officers to target minorities.
An analysis by the Raleigh News and Observer found that a highway drug unit ticketed black men at nearly twice the rate of other police units. In most cases the drivers were charged with minor traffic violations and no drugs were found.
In Texas, a 1995 analysis of more than 16 million driving records by the Houston Chronicle found that minority drivers who strayed into the small white enclaves in and around the state's major urban areas were twice as likely as whites to be ticketed for traffic violations. The study found that Hispanics were ticketed most often, though blacks overall faced the sharpest disparities, particularly in the suburbs around Houston where they were more than three times as likely as whites to receive citations. Bellaire, a mostly white city surrounded by southwest Houston, had the widest disparity in ticketing minorities of any city statewide, with blacks 43 times more likely than whites to receive citations there.
While Hispanics comprise less than eight percent of the Illinois population, and take fewer than three percent of the personal vehicle trips in Illinois, they comprise approximately 30 percent of the motorists stopped by ISP drug interdiction officers for discretionary offenses such as failure to signal a lane change or driving one to four miles over the speed limit.
I have a lot more if you want to see them.
