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Originally Posted by Shepp
So you are saying that in a town that is majority black, that when the police stop someone who is black, it is because the officer is picking on them?
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I was under the assumption that the relevant statistics were widely available and could be interpreted by anyone with more than a middle-school education in math.
If you're really that lazy, try this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/op...ite-power.html
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With primarily white police forces that rely disproportionately on traffic citation revenue, blacks are pulled over, cited and arrested in numbers far exceeding their population share, according to a recent report from Missouri’s attorney general. In Ferguson last year, 86 percent of stops, 92 percent of searches and 93 percent of arrests were of black people — despite the fact that police officers were far less likely to find contraband on black drivers (22 percent versus 34 percent of whites). This worsens inequality, as struggling blacks do more to fund local government than relatively affluent whites.
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