Originally posted by: PabloMartinez
Originally posted by: classy
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
It's not that anyone persay on here is targeting blacks and accusing them of doing a lot of crime, it is because THEY DO do a lot of crime. JEssie Jackson and all the people in the NAACP and ACLU and what not can scream, "White people just want to get us down" But when people like Bill Cosby and The Police Cheif of Charlestown,NC(a black guy, can't remember his name), speak out and say the reason the population in general think all blacks are criminals is because a larger percentage of blacks commit crimes than other ethnicities. And like said several times here it isn't because anyone is holding them back, it is because many, many young blacks think it is cool and acceptable to behave that way.
I live and work in a city that is 90% black, so many more blacks are gonna be pulled over and arrested because there are more of them than any other race. The reason they think it is racial profiling is because their are more white police officers( this holds true across the nation) than any other ethnicity.
WELL here in NJ there big guy its a bunch of bull. Here on the NJ turnpike, blacks account for only 10-12% of all the drivers. But accounted for over 60% of the stops.
I had to enter back into this discussion... WHERE IS YOUR PROOF? I VOW AN END TO RANDOMLY-PULLED-OUT-OF-ASS STATISTICS!
New Jersey agrees to plan to stop racial profiling by police
December 23, 1999
Web posted at: 4:00 p.m. EST (2100 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Under a deal reached to stave off a lawsuit threatened by the federal government, New Jersey has agreed to new procedures to ensure that its state police do not target minorities when making traffic stops.
The agreement announced on Wednesday between the state and the U.S. Justice Department prohibits state troopers from relying on race, national origin or ethnicity when making traffic stops, except when a suspect has been identified based on those details.
It also requires state troopers to document the race, ethnic origin and gender of all motorists they stop and to obtain written consent before initiating any consensual searches.
"This agreement will establish real safeguards against racially discriminatory stops and searches for motorists who drive on New Jersey's highways," said Bill Lann Lee, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights, in a written statement.
"We are pleased the state has worked together with us to develop such a comprehensive agreement," he said.
The agreement must be approved by a federal court.
Justice Department officials said in April they had found enough evidence of racial discrimination by New Jersey State Police troopers to file a civil rights suit.
The 2,700-member force has been accused of targeting minority drivers for traffic stops and discriminating against its own officers.
In the consent decree, New Jersey denied that its state police had engaged in racial profiling or any other discriminatory practice. The police department adopted a formal policy in 1990 prohibiting troopers from considering a person's race except where that "characteristic is directly and specifically related to particular criminal activity."
That is only one article. Search for yourself there little man. There are countless articles on the situation here in NJ concerning black drivers and the state police. As far vowing to stop pulling things out of ass, do you count as one of those things?