California cops more likely to stop black drivers

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[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Black people are always nervous and shitting their pants around cops but this is not the case even with latin americans who have a huge subset of criminals and gangsters. Literally every other culture in America has a pretty good relationship with law enforcement.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I knew it was their fault. Sneaky Black people making the police pull them over.

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah yeah, they cry because they are so dehumanized, how can cops group them all together as if they were all criminals!? Except that's exactly what black people do to cops, which is misplaced judgement that leads to fear. Plenty of great people serving and making cities a safer place, but why bother with nuance when you can group them all as brutal, racist pigs, right? You reap what you sow.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The numbers seem to indicate that the police in the United States stop Black people more often than the crime statistics would predict. Numbers also show Black people are punished more often than member of other ethnic groups. This would seem to imply long-standing biases against Black Americans by the police.

I hope I am not misinformed.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Blacks commit violent crimes at a rate eight-times that of non-blacks. Police target high-crime areas which are predominantly black.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So you are sort of figuring the police stop Black drivers not because of a traffic violations, but because of violent crimes? This is highly imaginative.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

California blacks more likely to commit crime

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How do you figure? All surveys show Blacks use the Dreaded Marijuana at the same rate as other Americans. They are simply arrested more often. Traffic statistics do not show Blacks commit more mistakes while driving than other Americans. Oddly, they are stopped more often.

[–]Spud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My older son is black. Was very illuminating as he grew up.

Profiled so many times and treated much differently too.

Cannot tell you the number of times I showed up, white, working professional, only to see them begin to stammer and walk shit back, caught being shitty dead to rights.

[–]Spud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nope. Not due to some inherent part of their nature.

Anyone socioeconomically struggling is more likely to do crime.

Black people are still discriminated against and likely to be born to poverty more than others.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More Studies of this are Needed.

Black drivers in California were stopped by police at 2.5 times the per capita rate of whites and searched three times as often, according to the latest report Thursday from a first-in-the-nation attempt to track racial profiling by police.

Under a 2015 law, when California police make a stop of any kind they are required to, among other things, log their perception of the race, gender and sexual orientation of anyone they stop. The report by the state Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board includes information from the eight largest law enforcement agencies on 1.8 million police stops — the vast majority traffic stops — and searches.

Black people accounted for 15% of all stops but make up about 6% of the population. Hispanics accounted for 40% of stops, a slightly higher per capita rate, while whites were a third of the stops, a slightly lower rate.

Moreover, “a higher percentage of Black individuals were stopped for reasonable suspicion than any other racial identity group,” the board reported. Officers were nearly three times as likely to search blacks than whites, though white suspects were more likely to yield contraband or other evidence.

Black people also were more likely to be arrested and stopped at night.

State lawmakers who created the board hoped to learn if agencies are indeed more likely to stop minority motorists for what commonly has been called “driving while black.”

[–]thefadd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That’s because most cops are Hispanic.