The Price Blacks Pay To Walk The Streets!

If you've ever been stopped and searched by your local
police while walking down the street minding your own
business then you know the feeling of having been violated.
This is an annoying practice that just so happens to happen
more to blacks than any other race. So why is that? If you
have an answer please step up and share it with us. But first
check out the article below.


The New York Police Department released information last night showing that officers stopped 113,945 people on city streets for the second quarter of this year, a number that a spokesman said was 12.4 percent lower than that recorded in the same period in 2006.

The spokesman, Assistant Chief Michael Collins, said the reports were turned over to the City Council yesterday, as required by law.
Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., chairman of the Council’s Public Safety Committee, said last night that the Council had received the new reports but that he had not had a chance to look at them.

The practice of “stop and frisks,” as the street stops are known by police officers, has caused some occasional tension with some city residents. The city has commissioned a study to analyze the stops made in 2006, as well as to interview officers about the decision-making process involved in making the stops.

Chief Collins said that the reports showed that 53 percent of the stops in the quarter that ended on June 30 involved blacks, and 67 percent of suspects were described as black by their victims (or by witnesses, for instance, in the case of homicides).

Chief Collins provided the breakdowns for other races: Hispanics made up 32 percent of those stopped and 26 percent of suspected offenders; whites made up 12 percent of those stopped and 5 percent of suspected offenders; and Asians made up 3 percent of those stopped and 2 percent of suspects.

Chief Collins did not provide raw numbers of those arrested or issued summonses as a result of street stops. But he said that 6 percent of the stops resulted in arrests for the second quarter of this year, an increase from the 4 percent of stops that resulted in arrests in the same quarter last year. Summonses also increased, to 8 percent of stops from 6 percent, Mr. Collins said.
Beyond the reports, the New York Civil Liberties Union wants the Police Department to turn over computerized data on its stop-and-frisk activity so it can analyze the role that race plays.





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