When they can’t ask about criminal convictions, employers are *more* likely to discriminate against blacks.
Tag Archives: Racial Profiling
Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Bad news for our favorite sheriff.
BART Official Criticized for Memo on Withholding Crime Facts, San Francisco Chronicle
The truth would reinforce “racist” stereotypes.
Cologne Police Defend New Year’s Eve Security Tactics, Deutsche Welle
Police racially profiled North Africans.
“The move has few precedents in U.S. history.”
It doesn’t mean they are guilty. They just don’t want to be profiled.
Canadian grocer had to pay $21,000 for wrongly accusing a black man of shoplifting.
“Foreign men” have high crime rates in Norway.
Baltimore will enter a consent decree with the DOJ to stop broken-windows policing.
Police look for crime where the criminals are.
Racial Profiling: Myrtle Cole Apologizes amid Calls to Resign, San Diego Union-Tribune
Black councilwoman apologizes for telling the truth about black crime.
The Times is surprised. We’re not.
Sonia Sotomayor Cites Ta-Nehisi Coates in a Supreme Court Dissent
Race is everything for the “wise Latina.”
How Chicago’s Streets Became the Wild West, Wall Street Journal
Detective: “From patrol to investigation, it’s almost an undoable job now.”
He cites Israel as a model.
It correctly identifies 61 percent of criminals who are rearrested within two years of release.
Common sense is not allowed.
Chicago Police Must Face ‘Hard Truths’ About Racist Past, Task Force Draft Report Says, Chicago Tribune
Non-whites suffer from “a long, sad history of death, false imprisonment, physical and verbal abuse.”
When Common Sense Is a Crime
Police department under investigation after chief states the obvious.
He said racial profiling “has its place in law enforcement when used correctly and applied fairly.”
Movie rejects as prejudice the idea that some animals are naturally more violent than others.
Says government didn’t want to profile Muslims.
Tells 911 operator: “There’s three black men with guns at our house.”
Neighbors and workers in the area were suspicious but did not want to racially profile.
What Donald Trump Should Have Tweeted
Murder would fall by 91 percent in an all-white New York City.
Shop workers have recently been accused of racial profiling.
Texas Troopers Ticketing Hispanic Drivers as White, KXAN (Austin)
Probably to avoid charges of racial profiling.
One-third of whites say the same thing.
British home secretary is also critical of police “stop and search.”
The Secret Surveillance of ‘Suspicious’ Blacks in One of the Nation’s Poshest Neighborhoods, Washington Post
Georgetown retailers use social media to alert each other to suspicious shoppers.
Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com, East Bay Express
Whites make sensible use of neighborhood-watch programs.
Names Influence Racial Bias Among Study Participants, Medical Xpress
Lead author: “I’ve never been so disgusted by my own data.”
More useless paperwork for the police.
In Wisconsin, 13 percent of black men are in jail–twice the national average.
The goal is to stop probable perps before they commit a crime.
Former chair of British Equality Commission finds most stereotypes are true.
Racial crime stats are “racist,” but racial policing stats reveal “racism.”
Judge Dismisses DOJ Case Against Johnson, Finds No Evidence of Unconstitutional Practices, Times-News
Carolina police force fights DOJ and wins.
Compared to 3 percent of whites.
Race hoaxer get comeuppance.
NYPD Chief Bratton Says Hiring Black Officers Is Difficult: ‘So Many Have Spent Time in Jail’, Guardian
He blames stop-and-frisk, since it caught so many non-whites committing crimes.
Gunplay Rises in New York, Reviving Issue for de Blasio, New York Times
Less stop-and-frisk means more “gunplay.”
The New Nationwide Crime Wave, Wall Street Journal
The “Ferguson effect”–enforcement slowdown–has spread across the country.
DOJ hopes to “transform” police department “into a model of community-oriented policing.”
Blacks are worried, even though statistics prove them wrong.
Proposed Federal Rules for NYPD Training Include Cop 101 Advice Like ‘Don’t Be Racist’, NY Daily News
Police recruits will be taught “groundbreaking new concepts.”
LAPD Is More Diverse, but Distrust in the Community Remains, Los Angeles Times
“Before it was white against blacks. Now it’s just blue against blacks.”
‘Stop and Frisk’ Sadly Welcome in Violent Neighborhoods, Chicago Sun-Times
Resident in majority-black neighborhood is thankful police disproportionately search blacks.
Blacks are a third of the population, but three-fourths of those stopped.
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