Ferguson police are much more likely to stop, search and arrest African-American drivers than white ones. Last year, blacks, who make up a little less than two-thirds of the driving-age population in the North County city, accounted for 86 percent of all stops. When stopped, they were almost twice as likely to be searched as whites and twice as likely to be arrested, though police were less likely to find contraband on them.If you look at the statistics for Ferguson, you'll see that in comparing the number of stops to the population as a whole, whites were two-thirds less likely to be searched than an equal distribution would imply and blacks were one-third more likely to be searched.
Mull this over: Suppose that the protestors in Ferguson were openly carrying weapons; what do you think would have happened? If you think that they would have been accorded the same sort of treatment that the Bundy Ranch protestors received, with the cops tipping their hats and saying, in essence: "Sorry to bother you nice gentlemen, we'll be leaving now", then I submit that you would be sadly mistaken.
When the cops rush into a McDonald's and start rousting people because they were committing the heinous offense of sitting down, then you have to wonder how badly things are fucked up in Ferguson. And arresting reporters is a really brain-dead move, Barn'.
UPDATE: Five years ago, the cops in Ferguson beat an innocent man to the point that blood was pouring from his head and then charged him with getting blood on their uniforms.
Well, OK, I'll bite...
ReplyDeleteI would have two questions regarding these statistics:
1. What percentage of CRIME is commited by those identifiable as black?
2. What percentage of that crime is commited by those identifiable as young black males between (say) 18 and 28?
Because, rightly or wrongly, if it's 85% and 90% then the police are going to target young black males.
When the Ferguson cops do a search of a car, they are nearly twice as likely to search cars driven by blacks. When they do the search, they find something a third of the time when they search white people's cars and a fifth of the time when they search black people's cars.
ReplyDeleteIf they're targeting people because they're black, then that is constitutionally invalid. And it's flat out fucking wrong.
I'm still waiting for all those people who showed up to 'help' Cliven Bundy to repeat it in Ferguson. If they got that amped for a guy who was in the wrong in his stand-off with BLM, then they must be enraged by what is more or less an occupation. Or are they claiming 'States Rights'?
ReplyDeleteGoFY, there would seem to be at least one..
ReplyDeleteSorry, I think thre is more than racism here.
ReplyDeleteWhen one hears hoofbeats in the US, one expects horses, not zebras.
Statistically, black people (somewhat depending on economic status) are more likely to commit crimes. Therefore, cops are already suspicious of people. If you look like a "Yo" and act like one, yer gonna get treated like one.
if blacks are stopped 86% of the time and one third are found to be committing some violation, about 29% of blacks are found to be criminals. If 14% of stops are white and the same percentage (1/3) are in violation, about 5% are criminals. Blacks don't commit more crimes, folks, it's the miracle of statics. Learn some effin' math.
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