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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOff Duty Black Officers In New York Say They Fear Fellow Cops
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/23/off-duty-black-cops-nypd_n_6373496.html
Whats emerging now is that, within the thin blue line of the NYPD, there is another divide - between black and white officers.
Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.
The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.
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A number of academics believe those statistics are potentially skewed because police over-focus on black communities, while ignoring crime in other areas. They also note that being stopped as a suspect does not automatically equate to criminality. Nearly 90 percent of blacks stopped by the NYPD, for example, are found not to be engaged in any crime.
The black officers interviewed said they had been racially profiled by white officers exclusively, and about one third said they made some form of complaint to a supervisor.
All but one said their supervisors either dismissed the complaints or retaliated against them by denying them overtime, choice assignments, or promotions. The remaining officers who made no complaints said they refrained from doing so either because they feared retribution or because they saw racial profiling as part of the system.
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Off Duty Black Officers In New York Say They Fear Fellow Cops (Original Post)
kwassa
Dec 2014
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Feral Child
(2,086 posts)1. K&R n/t
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)2. HUGE K&R. nt
steve2470
(37,457 posts)3. big kick and rec nt
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)4. Kick it out of the park.nt
kwassa
(23,340 posts)5. One more confirmation of the issue.
Black law enforcement is not exempt.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)6. Kickage
Number23
(24,544 posts)8. Rec #24 (missed it by 1!)
I read this in the news today and wondered how the "well, if black folks weren't all criminals they wouldn't get profiled all of the time" folks would respond to it.
I'm too terrified to read the Huff Post and Yahoo comments on it.
Edit: Wow, I just realized that you posted this HOURS ago. Barely registered a blip here!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)10. I just started reading the comments on Huffington: some are excellent.
Many black writers talking about their run-ins with the police while just living their lives.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)9. This clip below is from 2008 but not a hell of a lot has changed -
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/plainclothes-officers-trouble-didn-recognize-off-duty-chief-article-1.327540
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At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens, the Daily News has learned.
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At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens, the Daily News has learned.
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UtahLib
(3,179 posts)11. K&R This issue deserves more attention. nt