This week, New York City is defending itself against a lawsuit that
claims its controversial "stop and frisk" policy is used to illegally
detain and search people on the basis of race. The subject of an ongoing
trial, the suit also argues that the weak justifications given by NYPD
officers for most stop-and-frisks fail to meet the constitutional burden
for search and seizure. We put together this explainer and some charts
to help you make sense of what's going on. - Mother Jones
And you thought segregation was a thing of the past. Maybe you should think again. I found these demographics quiet astonishing, but it is what it is.
The other 3 cities after the jump...
I found this interesting chart online in reference to people who have been imprisoned for drugs. I find it ironic that the issue of race and prison seem to come up, quite a bit, around election season. But are politicians reading the numbers correctly?
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| Drug users by race— 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health and "Prisoners in 2007" by Bureau of Justice Statistics, and U.S. Census Bureau Natioanl Population Estimates |
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- Blade 7184 aka Peter
