On Sep 28, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> subjective racism, or sheer hatred of Blacks _does_ characterize many if not all Police Departments in the U.S.
There's no doubt that the NYPD does lots of nasty shit to black and brown people, mostly young men, but the NYPD was, as of 2009, "47.5% Caucasian, 28.9% Hispanic, 17.9% African American and 5.5% Asian." I'm quoting Wikipedia; can't find a primary source right now. I can tell you that my neighborhood in Brooklyn is full of black cops. The reasons behind the maltreatment of young men of color have to be more complicated than "subjective racism or sheer hatred."
Doug