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Showing Original Post only (View all)How Can Obama Deliver This Speech on Racial Profiling While Considering Ray Kelly for DHS? - FDL [View all]
How Can Obama Deliver This Speech on Racial Profiling While Considering Ray Kelly for DHS?By: Jon Walker - FDL
Friday July 19, 2013 12:10 pm
Ray Kelly, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department
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In response to the George Zimmerman verdict, today President Obama delivered remarks on race and racial profiling. In the speech he called on police forces to address the problem of racial profiling. From Obama (via Washington Post):
Number one, precisely because law enforcement is often determined at the state and local level, I think itd be productive for the Justice Department governors, mayors to work with law enforcement about training at the state and local levels in order to reduce the kind of mistrust in the system that sometimes currently exists.
You know, when I was in Illinois I passed racial profiling legislation. And it actually did just two simple things. One, it collected data on traffic stops and the race of the person who was stopped. But the other thing was it resourced us training police departments across the state on how to think about potential racial bias and ways to further professionalize what they were doing.
And initially, the police departments across the state were resistant, but actually they came to recognize that if it was done in a fair, straightforward way, that it would allow them to do their jobs better and communities would have more confidence in them and in turn be more helpful in applying the law. And obviously law enforcements got a very tough job.
So thats one area where I think there are a lot of resources and best practices that could be brought bear if state and local governments are receptive. And I think a lot of them would be. And and lets figure out other ways for us to push out that kind of training.
You know, when I was in Illinois I passed racial profiling legislation. And it actually did just two simple things. One, it collected data on traffic stops and the race of the person who was stopped. But the other thing was it resourced us training police departments across the state on how to think about potential racial bias and ways to further professionalize what they were doing.
And initially, the police departments across the state were resistant, but actually they came to recognize that if it was done in a fair, straightforward way, that it would allow them to do their jobs better and communities would have more confidence in them and in turn be more helpful in applying the law. And obviously law enforcements got a very tough job.
So thats one area where I think there are a lot of resources and best practices that could be brought bear if state and local governments are receptive. And I think a lot of them would be. And and lets figure out other ways for us to push out that kind of training.
It is shocking that the same man who delivered this speech just days earlier called New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly one of the best law enforcement professionals there is and is considering appointing him to head the Department of Homeland Security.
There is probably no single individual in America more personally responsible for a systematic unjustifiable racial profiling system than Ray Kelly. Kelly dramatically escalated the racist and unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policy in New York City. According to the NYCLU it was responsible for over half a million stops last year of which 87 percent were Black or Hispanic. Among those stops, 90 percent were innocent. In addition, Kelly is responsible for a widespread spying program on Muslims. Ray Kelly is the biggest promoter and defender of racial profiling tactics.
The intellectual disconnect between these two statements issued days apart is almost unfathomable. Ray Kelly is the poster child for the problems of racial profiling in this country and Obama is considering rewarding him with a cabinet level appointment.
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How Can Obama Deliver This Speech on Racial Profiling While Considering Ray Kelly for DHS? - FDL [View all]
WillyT
Jul 2013
OP
Love the blue link. I was thinking yesterday of doing similar on all my posts.
Luminous Animal
Jul 2013
#30
Please don't do that. Initially, I thought it was someone else's and skipped it the first time.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#39
Another white man chimes in to tell the black President how to handle the race debate.
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#8
I'm referring to the pasty white asshole at FDL that saw it fit to criticize Obama's remarks.
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#11
Do You Care To Address The Substance Of The Article??? - How Do YOU Feel About...
WillyT
Jul 2013
#15
What's insensitive is people shitting all over what was a heartfelt statement
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#42
Exactly - how can a white person possibly experience what an African American has to experience on
HipChick
Jul 2013
#22
Do you mean, like, someone else makes the decisions, and he's just the "Presenter"? n/t
ReRe
Jul 2013
#43
Yes. The intelligence agencies told him that he has no choice. They set up a super
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#68
Yes it would be worse with a Republican president, but that doesnt mean we should settle.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#98
I agree that Ray Kelly is the King of Profilers and Obama must be pressured not
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#20
Maybe because it refers to the President of the United States as a "a shittalking 1%er" (nt)
Skinner
Jul 2013
#86
Then I obviously misunderstood. Sorry and thanks for straightening that out for me. n/t
Whisp
Jul 2013
#97
Or sending drones to kill kids? An American Teenager Killed, A Grandfather Seeks Accountability
Catherina
Jul 2013
#35
You don't have a problem with him talking about being black in America
East Coast Pirate
Jul 2013
#85
Exactly. When he acts like a Republican I WILL criticize him and nobody is going to
forestpath
Jul 2013
#112
Reductive simplistic thinking there, it is almost like you have ignored the actual
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#95
But (as usual) you have not addressed the inconsistency between his remarks . . .
markpkessinger
Jul 2013
#72
Way too soon. This time, attacking "from the left" couldn't be any more transparent
ecstatic
Jul 2013
#80
Ratfucking doesn't focus on solutions...it creates discontent so voter turnout is lower. nt
msanthrope
Jul 2013
#81
Calling pointing out contradictions "ratfucking" doesn't focus on solutions.
Comrade Grumpy
Jul 2013
#114
Is the President just tired of not getting his nominations confirmed in a timely fashion? Would bet
indepat
Jul 2013
#99
Speeches and actions are two different things, ESPECIALLY with this President
BlueStreak
Jul 2013
#102