Thursday, October 18, 2012
Double Standard
After watching the video that Justin posted on his blog I was very disturbed. My whole life I've lived in NYC and I've only noticed Stop and Frisks occur in areas where it would be obvious to accuse someone of being "suspicious". If someone has there pants sagged or a hood on there head does that make them suspicious? Or are the police just picking on people because they can? I think the latter is correct. I have seen police pull up, hop out and say,"Get on the wall!" for no reason while just outside talking to my friends. However, I never see the police hop out on anyone when I'm in lower manhattan. It is honestly racial profiling, they only do these stops in areas where minorities are prominent. Instead of protecting the citizens of the city they really are hurting them and becoming hated because of it. They say it isn't a quota but in actuality it is only one percent of these stops that actually find something. I cant completely blame the officers either because they are ordered to do so. Cops are being held at a double standard. Either they harassed the citizens or they get harassed by the officials. This is not fair.
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