Which is not to say that it doesn't exist.
J
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
In Black officers sometimes help, sometimes not. (After all, a large number of Vietnamese were fighting _against_ the liberation forces.) There were Black officers in the crew that murdered Hampton and Clark. At one time a Black 'caucus' (I don't remember its name) in the Chicago PD was helping some. I think it still exists. Halle in the account Lou fwd to Pen-L describes the beating of a Black man among the Wall Street marchers. Has anyone that youknow of done a study of Black police officers and the extent to which they do and don't make a difference
Carrol
On 9/28/2011 2:24 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> subjective racism, or sheer hatred of Blacks _does_ characterize many if not all Police Departments in the U.S.
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> 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."
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> Doug
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