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NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To Possess Drugs Or A Weapon Than Racial Minorities When Stopped, Yet 84% of Stop & Frisk Victims Are Black/Latino
During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.
White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.
• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.

It’s unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime. Considering one officer’s testimony that superiors explicitly directed him to target young black men, minorities are judged by a much more flexible definition of “reasonable suspicion.”
In general, stop-and-frisk has proven to be remarkably ineffective; nearly 89 percent of all stops result in no charges. The city has also had to settle a surging number of civil rights lawsuits against police to the tune of $22 million in one year.

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the-one-you-will-hate:

radicalrebellion:

the-one-you-will-hate:

foxingstupid:

the-one-you-will-hate:

patfitzpattywhack:

the-one-you-will-hate:

This is egregious.

Wow. What an asinine answer to that question. That makes as much sense as hating all black people because my great-great-great-great grandfather was killed by one. Or hating all Muslims because of the actions of terrorists.

Or hating all Muslims because of the actions of terrorists.
Just wanted to highlight this one.
Because every social justice hypocrite on Tumblr will in one breath defend the Muslim community because “A extremist minority does not define the majority” , then in the next breath complain that every-single-person-with-white-skin is out to get them.
And I’m just sitting here like o_____o;;;;;;;;;;

That is always my point. :)

OK, but slavery was not enacted by a simple minority of white people. It was a collaboration of white people across the Americas and Europe that literally enslaved millions of people, separated them from their homelands, culture, and families, and many other physical, emotional, and spiritual traumas. Not the same thing as single acts of terrorism. Some critical thinking skills are essential.

Ugh. You have got to be kidding. You don’t read often do you?

Wow.
radicalrebellion…. Social Justice at it’s fucking finest.
The history you feel attached to is over-dramatized.
(even though you have no real attachment to it)
While everyone else history is belittled.
(even though you have no real understanding of it)
Fuck you. You and everyone like you.

But did this fool say “overdramatized”? How do you overdramatize the degradation and enslavement of millions of people? How do you overdramatize a group of millions of people being treated like animals? Being bred and beaten and worked to death like animals? They used black babies as crocodile bait. They raped, and lynched black people for fun, for sport. How do you overdramatize that? And how do you say black people have no attachment to almost 400 years of enslavement and then another almost 200 years of purposeful mistreatment? The US is not even 250 years old and black folks didn’t even get something resembling full human rights until a little over 40 years ago if we’re being generous. There are people with parents who remember living through Jim Crow, people with great grandparents who were the children of former slaves. This is not something so far removed that we can’t still remember it. So why do white people always act like we’re supposed to have no attachment to it and pretend that the first 200 years of this country’s history just didn’t happen and has no bearing on our lives now?

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Coyote Ugly is a good ass movie

howtobeterrell:

Judge me

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Judge Criticizes ‘High Error Rate’ of New York Police Stops →

satanic2chainz:

Observing that only about 12 percent of police stops resulted in an arrest or summons, Judge Scheindlin, who is hearing the case without a jury, focused her remarks on Monday on the other 88 percent of stops, in which the police did not find evidence of criminality after a stop. She characterized that as “a high error rate” and remarked to a lawyer representing the city, “You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”

“You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”

“You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”

“You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”

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‘Only Wanna Give It To You feat. J. Cole’ by Elle Varner is my new jam.

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#thisismyjam

A guide to consuming ethically in capitalism

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anarcheluxemburg:

Step One: You can’t

Talking to you “Going Green”

talking to you “Going Pink”

Talking to you random buy and help random african child charity.

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#richard roeper #critics who can't handle criticism #kanye west #rap #also his twitter background is just him smiling on a couch #it was actually painful collcting these images

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

I mean, it’s just true.

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“Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

That’s it. That’s it right there.

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"In 2012 Kanye West introduced most of the world to Chief Keef, via the G.O.O.D. Music remix of Keef’s local hit “I Don’t Like.” (I know, I know, you knew about Keef before Kanye, but most of America can’t touch your impeccable blog game.) This was something of a confusing move at the time, at least for me; the remix wasn’t an improvement by any means, and it had been a while since Kanye had shown significant interest in preserving his Chicago affiliations, but there he was, shouting out all the local rappers, putting on a 17-year-old kid from one of the most fucked up neighborhoods in the country. But I know why Kanye did the remix now (and I think he knows he didn’t improve upon the original either). He needed to confront white America with what they presumed at the time was their worst nightmare: a young black male who grew up in hell and no longer gave a single fuck, who used unfamiliar words and rapped about guns and money and drugs. You know, rapper stuff. (NOTE: When I say “white America” please know I am not being all-inclusive. Like, fuck, I’m white, I get that there are many white people who fully support and understand the racial and socio-political issues at hand here, and that I am being reductive by dichotomizing it into simply “black” vs “white” to begin with. Consider it shorthand for the type of non-black American unconcerned by or complicit in the perpetuation of these issues.)In reality though, Chief Keef isn’t white America’s worst nightmare. Because while he scares the living shit out of them in person, he fits neatly into the trope that many racist white Americans need young black men to fit into: violent, uneducated, aimless. They expect this kind of character, and in turn know how to strip him of his humanity, dismiss him, and avoid him. Kanye West is white America’s worst nightmare. Because as much as one may attempt to dismiss him—by calling him an asshole or classless or deranged or various other adjectives that fill the comment sections of literally every article about him—you still have to turn on your regularly scheduled late night comedy program and stare him in the face. You can’t avoid Kanye. He’s made very sure of that."

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SENSITIVE THUG: WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?

This is excellent, read it in full. On the Kardashian bit in particular:

Every era, for centuries, has had its few celebrities or cultural products whose name people who are neither as enlightened nor as funny as they think invoke as, with implied caps, THE DOWFALL OF SOCIETY. Who they end up being depends on a lot of factors: winner-takes-all name recognition by tabloid-cover or headline-feed or ad-placement osmosis (which is why Miley Cyrus is an example and Demi Lovato is not); their appeal to 13-year-old girls (which is why boy bands are reviled en masse and by name and, I dunno, Myspace emo is not); their appeal to 40-year-old women in Middle America (which is why Fifty Shades of Grey is an example and James Patterson* is not); and then race, implied class and/or new money, weight, etc., meaning a large portion of the backlash here comes from people using “Kardashian” as a synecdoche for “THE DOWNFALL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, AS EMBODIED BY NON-WASPY, NON-TINY, DOWNMARKET-CODING WOMEN.”**
Go a step farther and you find the people who criticize Kanye West dating a celebrity to juice his own celebrity, in the music and out. It seems like a fairer, more thought-out point until you notice everyone they are or were silent about, namely every celebrity couple, because this is how celebrity couples work by industry default. (And have since forever. Read history, of any era; if you want convenience and relative recency, read Anne Helen Petersen’s Scandals of Classic Hollywood series. Nothing is new.) Since it’s Kanye we’re talking about, here’s a good example: Taylor Swift, who dropped Red while she dated a Kennedy and the most saleable One Direction member, and worked both of these into her music. Somehow none of the Kanye pundits brought the hand-waving freakoutery.***

* Yes, I know Patterson has institutional immunity, and that women also read him. I know because patterson, Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell make up about 60% of my mother’s reading habits, to the point where it’s a family joke that she won’t buy a book if there’s no murder in the title. This may explain a lot about me and my family.

** Kim codes white in relation to Kanye, but it’s kind of like how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is either called white or not depending on who wants to make which point.

*** There was HWFO, but butthurt Louis Tomlinson stans are different than yuppies tsk-tsking about Kanye’s artistry being tainted.

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SENSITIVE THUG: WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? →

imathers:

gowns:

3lc3lc3lc:

What in the fuck was that Kanye?
I told you to do some shit for the kids
You can give me your muhfucking graduation ticket right now
You will not walk across that stage, you won’t slide across that stage
Muhfucka can’t pull you across that stage Kanye
Who told you…

now compare basic analysis and statistics to in-depth analysis, such as this piece by 3lc3lc3lc. with this piece and the salon article open in tabs, you can weep at the level of shallow discourse in an average rag.

then read this 3lc3lc3lc piece again, and weep for joy, for true “pop culture” analysis should always be folding in the context and intersection points — the full context ! take note!

Absolutely the best thing I’ve ever read on Kanye West. If they do a Best New Music writing thing at some point, someone remind me to vote for this. (And Rebecca’s points are very important too.)

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#kanye