OK so the poor neighborhood excuse is old and tired. Where does most crime happen poor neighborhoods, what is the incarnation rate of those from poorer areas?? See the correlation? So when an officer goes to an area that is poorer the percentage of criminals is much higher. So that would stand to reason the arrest records for those in a poorer area would be higher. That being said being poor does not give anyone the right to be a criminal without punishment. So to my original points rather than jumping on police for policing go after the criminals, publicly shame them, call them out, turn them in what ever just rid them of those areas.
What is the problem with Stop and Frisk, I have nothing to hide do you? Then quit bitching. Don't make assumptions as to my background. I grew up in a poorer neighborhood. My father was a police officer. I was personally threatened multiple times due to what my father did as a career. He put criminals in prison only for them to be let out so they could threaten him and his family. So please don't try to tell me about all the innocent criminals in prison and they are all good people. It's BS.
Well, the lack of empathy reinforces my suspicion about your racial and class background. Similarly, having a police officer in your family is highly prejudicial in the type of treatment you received from other police officers.
In the US, you have actual evidence that for the same crime, blacks and latinos get harsher jail sentences than whites.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324432004578304463789858002
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stor...n-white-americans-for-same-crimes?news=843984
In fact, this is so widely documented I somewhat doubt the sincerity of your disbelief, and think it may be more of some kind of investment in believing certain people are inherently more violent or arrest-prone than others.
Stop and frisk is not about "not having anything to hide." Again, going to data, stop and frisk is disproportionately targeted towards specific ethnic groups living in specific neighborhoods. It was so blatant and so bad that it was ruled to be unconstitutional, and ruling was upheld in your federal court, and the NYPD faces 5 years of court-run oversight as a result of the ruling
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...t-upholds-rulings-stop-frisk-unconstitutional
http://nypost.com/2014/03/05/nypd-faces-five-years-of-oversight-after-stop-and-frisk-ruling/
If you sympathize with the police "just doing their job" it might be good to review the arrest quota systems that were used as part of the policy - quotas that actual NYPD officers (the "good" police officers) admitted to having
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/21/174941454/at-stop-and-frisk-trial-cops-describe-quota-driven-nypd
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/justice/new-york-stop-and-frisk-trial/
Stop and Frisk data shows very systematic ethnic profiling by the police in who they stop. The fact that 90% of those stopped "had nothing to hide" suggests that the police were quite terrible at accurately profiling potential criminals...either that or they had arrest quotas...
http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/opinion/racial-discrimination-in-stop-and-frisk.html
Now, to address the very poor statistical arguments you made. Where does all the crime happen, you ask? Well, we know that the rich and the poor, white and black have similar frequency of illegal drug use, yet the vast majority of people in jail for drugs are poor minorities - this points to a concentration of enforcement on specific populations. This is not a correlation borne from causation, but from department policies/individual police choices on where and when to enforce the law.
Your attitude and comments also point out another key factor in arrest rates - unconscious bias. If as a police officer, I enter a neighborhood with an assumption that more of "those people" are criminals than other neighborhoods (antagonistic mindset from the start), and I have an arrest quota like stop and frisk, I am more likely to make an arrest. And more importantly, I will be looking for a reason to arrest someone, and so I might behave in a way that triggers someone to act in a manner that gives me grounds to arrest. The behavior is called micro-aggression. To learn more about what micro-aggression might sound like check out this video
Obviously, you have some emotional investment in justifying behaviors that many of your fellow American citizens perceive to be abuse of police power. The points made above are so well documented, and the data so widely and easily verified and available, that your behavior points to either brilliant trolling or some cognitive dissonance.