By the end of Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, the number of blacks and latinos stopped by the NYPD will exceed the population of black and latino people living in NYC.
The number of stops involving young black men in 2011 (168,124) exceed the city’s population of young black men (158,406). 90% of them were innocent (were not arrested or given a summons) yet accounted for 41.6% of the stops despite making up only 4.7 of NYC.
Since Bloomberg took office, stop and frisks increased 600%. This March the NYPD CONDUCTED THEIR 5 MILLIONTH STOP AND FRISK. The number is truly staggering when you consider that the population of NYC is 8.3 million. In comparison, the population of Los Angeles, America’s second largest city, is only 3.8 million.
Out of those 5,000,000 stop and frisk encounters, 4.4 million or 88% were innocent (were not arrested or given a summons) and 86% were Latino or Black.
In Brownsville, Brooklyn, where over 96% of the residents are black or latino, 93 out of 100 residents were stopped by the NYPD.
Probably the most enraging fact about the stop and frisk method is that it has revealed that WHITES ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE FOUND WITH A WEAPON THAN BLACKS/LATINO’S.
Only 1.9 percent of frisks in 2011 turned up weapons and interestingly, according to the NYCLU, “a weapon was found in only 1.8 percent of blacks and Latinos frisked, as compared to a weapon being found in 3.8 percent of whites frisked.”
"The most enraging facts about Bloomberg’s/NYPD’s Stop And Frisk method.
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This is in London.
also, remember that police have no legal obligation to protect citizens. so the primary justification given for the police (presumably by white people), i.e. that they exist to protect you, is by law, not even true.
and institutionally, they fail to respond to domestic abuse calls, fail to pursue rape allegations, specifically target and brutalise young black and brown people, shut down peaceful protests with riot squads, attack crowds with lethal ‘non-lethal’ weapons or keep them in confined areas unable to obtain food and water (‘kettling’!). they succeed only in protecting the property/power/privacy of the rich white owners
here’s a thought, what with police privatisation - maybe this dude’s on commission? ya know, injuring people so he can then rush to give them medical assistance? (I’m being facetious of course…)
there’s a reason the police swear to serve the Queen
rather than the people
if you haven’t signed this petition, fucking DO IT. sign the petition.
what police state
also find it ridiculous that all these ‘cybersecurity’ hawks are coming out of the woodwork to hype some supposed threat from China, when it’s partly thanks to China buying up $1trillion+ of the US national debt that America has been able to keep its imperialist bullshit going as long as it has
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there are actually people on that MLK assassination thread attempting to dismiss the whole thing by saying ‘well that’s only what the jury said’
are you fucking kidding me
ok then, let’s just abandon that whole ‘trial by a jury of your peers’ thing, rather than acknowledge that maybe the white supremacist secret police would kill a black revolutionary and then not tell everyone about it afterwards
I mean after all, what authority do ordinary members of the public have to make decisions anyway? that sounds like communism or some shit.
best just leave it to the secret police to decide if the secret police are guilty
after all they’re the experts
‘Terrorist Hideout’ in New Jersey Actually An Illegal NYPD Safehouse
Photo Caption: This July 13, 2011, photo shows the apartment complex in New Brunswick, N.J., where an apartment was rented by an undercover NYPD officer. On June 2, 2009, a building superintendent at the complex just off the Rutgers University campus called 911 after stumbling one of the NYPD’s biggest secrets - a safe house, a place where undercover officers working well outside the department’s jurisdiction could lay low and coordinate surveillance. The Associated Press has obtained a copy of the 911 call that exposed the NYPD safe house. In 2011, the AP requested a copy of the 911 tape. The New Brunswick Police refused. After the AP sued, the city turned over the tape and emails this week that described the NYPD’s efforts to keep the recording a secret. (AP Photo/Matt Apuzzo)
He saw something. He said something. And he inadvertently uncovered a secret spying operation that the New York Police Department was running outside its jurisdiction.
In June 2009, a building superintendent at an apartment complex near the Rutgers University campus opened the door to unit 1076 to conduct an inspection. Tenants had been notified of the inspection weeks ago and the notice was still stuck to the door.
He turned his key, walked in and immediately knew something was wrong. A colleague called 911.
The caller, Salil Sheth, and his colleagues had stumbled upon one of the NYPD’s biggest secrets: a safe house, a place where undercover officers working well outside the department’s jurisdiction could lie low and coordinate surveillance.
Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NYPD, with training and guidance from the CIA, has monitored the activities of Muslims in New York and far beyond. Detectives infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped in cafes and kept tabs on Muslim student groups, including at Rutgers.
The NYPD kept files on sermons, recorded the names of political organizers in police documents, and built databases of where Muslims lived and shopped, even where they were likely to gather to watch sports. Out-of-state operations, like the one in New Brunswick, were one aspect of this larger intelligence-gathering effort.
The Associated Press previously described the discovery of the NYPD inside the New Jersey apartment but, after a yearlong fight, New Brunswick police released the tape of the 911 call and other materials this week.
The call from the building superintendent sent New Brunswick police and the FBI rushing to the apartment complex. Officers and agents were surprised at what they found. None had been told that the NYPD was in town.
At the NYPD, the bungled operation was an embarrassment. It made the department look amateurish and forced it to ask the FBI to return the department’s materials.
In February, NYPD’s deputy commissioner for legal matters, Andrew Schaffer, told reporters that detectives can operate outside New York because they aren’t conducting official police duties.
This is ridiculous.
So if you live in the UK, the police could seize your computer, claim that you’ve steganographically encrypted a hidden terrorist message into your tumblr profile pic or some shit, and then when you’re unable to produce the non-existent decryption key, you automatically go to prison for 5 years.
What if we took the same approach to murder? (and… freezers).
Police observe that murderers often hide the victim’s body in the freezer. Moreover, ANY sufficiently large freezer will suffice, regardless of make or model. How many corpses are out there right now, they wonder, partially obscured behind stacks of Goodfella’s pizzas?
Some bright spark gets an idea - SEARCH ALL THE FREEZERS. It’s the only way.
So they start going door to door. One day the police turn up at your house. Routine freezer inspection, they say. You might be a murderer, they say.
‘But who am I supposed to have murdered?’ you ask, incredulous.
‘That’s what we’re trying to find out’ says the first police officer, ‘and you’re not being very cooperative’.
The second police officer is getting impatient already for some reason. ‘JUST TELL US WHERE IT IS!’. You figure he’s the bad cop.
‘Where what is?’
‘THE FREEZER!’ they scream in unison.
You explain that you don’t own a freezer.
This only arouses their suspicion further. They share a knowing smile. Denying possession of a freezer is classic freezer-murderer behaviour they explain, everyone knows that! Training prepared them for people like you! Most certainly you do have a freezer somewhere and the reason you’re hiding it is because that’s where you’ve stashed the body of whoever it was you killed.
You think: maybe, if I can just get them to come back tomorrow, I can order a freezer online? It’ll be cool. I can get next day priority delivery… and then when they come back, I’ll be all like, HERE’S MY FREEZER SUCKERS, NO CORPSES TODAY!
You suggest rescheduling for tomorrow after 9.30am.
The bad cop gives you an icy glare. ‘What, and give you time to move the body to a larger, more secret freezer? So you can put it with all the others? I bet you line them up in little rows, don’t you?! Not on my watch I say! So here’s what’s going to happen. I’m going to shut my eyes and count to ten, and you’d better hope I see your blood-stained freezer when I open them again OR ELSE YOU ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO PRISON.’
The silent march against NYPD’s racist Stop-and-Frisk policy is stretched across several city blocks right now. Crowd estimates are at about 50,000*.
It can produce 150 decibel levels of noise.
To put that into context:
- 110db - Power tools
- 120db - Planes on airport runway
- 125db - Pneumatic drill
- 137db - (pain threshold in humans)
- 150db - Jet engine (close up)
- ~180db - (significant organ damage)
I guess that’s what happens when you set the baseline at ‘non-lethal’, as long as it doesn’t kill you - you’re fine! You can take it! Shut up and quit complaining! Be thankful we let you live - who said you were allowed on the motherfucking Thames anyway?!
By way of a counter-argument, here’s some ‘non-lethal’ weapons that have actually killed people. Until they died:
- Tasers (525 documented deaths in US alone)
- Water cannons
- Rubber bullets
- Pepper spray
- Police fucking batons
- I could go on
Non-lethal my arse.
Who wants to bet G4S win the contract?
If you don’t know who G4S are, ask yourself why because they’re the largest employer in the world bar Walmart. But what do they do?
- Airport security. Three G4S security guards at Heathrow were responsible for the death of Angolan refugee Jimmy Mubenga in Oct 2010 when they kept him heavily restrained, despite his repeated complaints of not being able to breathe.
- Immigrant detention camps. In Australia, G4S were ‘faulted for lethal neglect and abuse of solitary confinement’ (NYTimes). Again in Australia, up to 50 asylum seekers went on hunger strike and sewed their own lips together in protest over conditions. G4S also ran these lovely detention boats in the Netherlands that were deemed ‘inhumane’ by the European Parliament.
- Guarding the entire length of the southwest US/Mexico border and deporting undocumented immigrants. Anyone starting to feel like G4S don’t like immigrants for some reason?
- Private UK police (already). G4S is already contracted to employ half of Lincolnshire police, and are building a police station there.
- Private prisons in the UK and US. Because why stop with immigrants?
- Juvenile detention centres. Because why stop with adults?
- Profiteering off the UK ‘Welfare to Work’ scheme. Which is essentially an ingenious device for taking tax-payer money away from those who need it, and giving it to G4S (who have the nerve to fob much of their workload off onto charities and other non-profit organisations). At the same time the scheme allows companies like Tesco to profit from slave labour as people are made to work full-time for their unemployment benefits.
- Military security in Afghanistan. Popular pastimes for the G4S employees guarding the US embassy in Kabul included: lighting fires, getting naked, pissing on each other and conducting humiliating hazings/initiations. NSFW photos here!
- Much more. Too much to list but it includes security for banks, ATM/cashpoint ‘management’, stewarding Live8 and Download and reading your gas meter. Also landmine clearance, which strangely enough is the only one of these things I’d happily trust them with.
