In Poll, Majority of New Yorkers Say Police Favor White People

[choie]

Source: NY Times

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and MARJORIE CONNELLY

A significant majority of New Yorkers say the Police Department favors whites over blacks, according to a new poll by The New York Times.

That position, reaching levels seen in 2000 during the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, runs particularly strong among black New Yorkers, 80 percent of whom say the police favor one race over the other. A plurality of white residents – 48 percent – agree.

Concern about police favoritism comes at a time of widespread publicity over the department’s extensive practice of stopping, questioning and, in many instances, frisking people on the city’s streets. Last year, the police made nearly 700,000 stops; about 85 percent of those stopped were black or Hispanic.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/nyregion/64-of-new-yorkers-in-poll-say-police-favor-whites.html?hp

[Orrex]

1. The police and everything else.

I mean, what a revelation.

[choie]

2. I know n/t

[Orrex]

3. Sorry--that was artless of me

Didn't mean to suggest that you were unaware of this fact--I was snarking at the article itself.

[choie]

5. That's okay, Orrex

I knew what you meant - it does seem to be a "water is wet" type of revelation.

[starroute]

6. The news-y part is that even a plurality of white New Yorkers agree

That wouldn't have been true even a little while ago, when the comfortably middle class would have said that the cops were just doing their job against criminal elements and that it had nothing to do with racial profiling.

[Orrex]

7. Ah--interesting!

I lack the perspective to understand the sentiment in New York and was projecting the idea over a wider sample size.

[JackRiddler]

8. It is a revelation when a plurality of the white people...

actually understand it. Since they haven't, until now, and have supported NYPD policy.

Such as it is: progress.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Sounds like the old London suss laws.