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marshall

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12. They apparently know how to profile whites to pick out the thugs

Reply to Bennyboy (Original post)

Thu May 23, 2013, 12:45 AM

May 2013

On the other hand, they seem to be randomly stopping blacks and Hispanics. They need to figure out what they are doing right in the case of finding whites and do the same with all groups.

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White People Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities [View all] Bennyboy May 2013 OP

Clearly they should only stop the white people. Robb May 2013 #1

I'd want the WAll Street duty.... Bennyboy May 2013 #4

Didn't the 13th Amendment make it illegal for white people to have minorities? Nimajneb Nilknarf May 2013 #2

I don't think they would fit in one's pocket. Cooley Hurd May 2013 #7

I don't see how supposedly liberal-minded New Yorkers LuvNewcastle May 2013 #3

Unfortunately yes. I remember the first time I saw this done to kid in Staten Island and he did hrmjustin May 2013 #8

Do you remember the 1990s? Recursion May 2013 #14

I remember the 1990's, but I wasn't in New York. LuvNewcastle May 2013 #15

Me? No, I'm not saying that. I think the crime wave receded for demographic reasons Recursion May 2013 #17

O.K., I see what you're saying. LuvNewcastle May 2013 #19

You know it! Baitball Blogger May 2013 #5

I have a feeling that the NYPD only stops and frisks the really freaky-looking white people... Ian David May 2013 #6

Wow how about that!!! gopiscrap May 2013 #9

kick Liberal_in_LA May 2013 #10

K&R Number23 May 2013 #11

They apparently know how to profile whites to pick out the thugs marshall May 2013 #12

Are guns and drugs the only reason to stop and search, or is this only half the story? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin May 2013 #13

Why do they treat race and ethnicity as mutually-exclusive in these profiling studies? CheapShotArtist May 2013 #16

Because about 95% of Americans don't understand the difference... Recursion May 2013 #18