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| Connecticut prepping new report on racial, ethnic disparities in traffic stops |
| 2015-03-08 |
| [NEWSTIMES] When the most detailed analysis of statewide traffic stops in Connecticut history is released at the end of the month, it will show that more minority drivers were pulled over in the last year than their share of the driving population warrants. Here's a fun game to try when you're out for a drive someday: Pretend you're a policeman. As you follow each car on the road for a few hundred yards guess what race the driver is from behind. For a handful of police departments where the disparity is especially pronounced, the state intends to offer training and other assistance. Here's another fun game: Ask your friends whether they want law enforced equally or proportionately. The answers will tell you whether they're happy reading the New York or Washington Post. The goal is to address biased policing before it produces a crisis of confidence, as it did recently in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where a federal Justice Department probe found that officers routinely discriminate against blacks. "I do anticipate changes in communities that have been identified where bias is present," said Ken Barone, a policy and research specialist at the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy in New Britannia and one of three authors who produced the analysis. "The foundation of this project is if the public doesn't believe law enforcement is legitimate, then police have lost their credibility," Barone said. "So the next phase of this project is to put reforms into place." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Remember "Trigonometry is Racist" a few days ago, Frank? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-08 17:28 |
| #4 data shows that blacks commit more traffic violations (and other crimes). Police coverage is concentrated in high crime areas. Do you need to be Fox Butterfield to not see the connection? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-08 16:54 |
| #3 Connecticut prepping new report on racial, ethnic disparities in traffic stops Call me when they do the report on racial, ethnic disparities in murder, robbery, and rape that will get as much media attention. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-08 10:44 |
| #2 F*ck, I can't wait for the report, should be an interesting read. Maybe Baritone can make it into an opera, "New Britannia the World is Ferguson Black" - Tickets will be on sale to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC, at your next Connecticut State Trooper traffic stop. |
| Posted by: Snerong Clunk7821 2015-03-08 03:12 |
| #1 Everyone that got their butts shot off during the past year had just committed a violent crime and then tried to beat up the police response. Always followed by a riot of course. Why? Black leadership has failed the black community. It is easier to play the race card than to get off their lazy pot smoking butts and become real moral leaders. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-03-08 01:02 |