Comments on: Study: Thousands of NYPD Stops Unjustified; Kelly Rips Study http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/73325/thousands-of-nypd-stops-unjustified-study-says.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: Shlomo2 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/73325/thousands-of-nypd-stops-unjustified-study-says.html#comment-200335 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:04:35 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=73325#comment-200335 locknload:
While the number you quote are probably accurate, they don’t tell the whole story. The issue with NYPD (although a national problem), is what statisticians call “selection bias.”
Whites may be engaged in criminal activity but have less of a chance of being stopped by the police. A black person has a much higher chance of being stopped. Even if there were exactly similar rates of criminal activity, blacks have a much greater chance of being caught.
Once caught, studies have shown a tendency towards greater charges against blacks (a white person will be charged with a misdemeanor, the black a felony).
The issues of policing and minority communities are complex. Statistics are fine and well but need to be taken in context. In the street, a cop cannot stop a black person because “statistically” more blacks are in jail; the stop and frisk can only be done on the basis of specific suspicion about that individual.

]]> By: locknload http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/73325/thousands-of-nypd-stops-unjustified-study-says.html#comment-200330 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:06:53 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=73325#comment-200330 These statistics are four years old, but it’s doubtful if much has changed since 2006. While living in the police state of NYC can’t be pleasant, it’s not hard to understand why the cops stop so many minorities: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

U.S. incarceration rates by race, June 30, 2006:

* Whites: 409 per 100,000
* Latinos: 1,038 per 100,000
* Blacks: 2,468 per 100,000

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