{"id":10264,"date":"2020-06-18T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/racialized-us-policing-the-evidence-is-ample\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T03:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:22:00","slug":"racialized-us-policing-the-evidence-is-ample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/racialized-us-policing-the-evidence-is-ample\/","title":{"rendered":"#Racialized US policing: the evidence is ample"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Racialized US policing: the evidence is ample<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Many conservatives condemn the excessive force that killed George Floyd but reject the notion that such abuses reflect a broader problem of racial bias. \u201cI don\u2019t think that the law-enforcement system is systemically racist,\u201d says Attorney General<\/a> William Barr, whose boss \u00adargues that the crimes of a few \u201cbad app<\/a>les\u201d don\u2019t justify \u201cfalsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fair enough. But it is a serious mistake to dismiss stark, widely documented racial disparities in policing as a statistical mirage with no implications for equality under the law.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, those disparities \u00adresult from race-neutral policies. When police concentrate their \u00adresources in high-crime, low-income neighborhoods, for instance, they may impose disproportionate burdens on the people they are trying to help.<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s stop-question-and-frisk program, which at its peak in 2011 involved nearly 700,000 encounters between cops and pedestrians, was supposed to get guns off the street and curb \u00adviolent crime. But nine times out of 10, those stops didn\u2019t yield an \u00adarrest or even a summons, although each of them was supposedly based on \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d of criminal activity.<\/p>\n

Half the stops included pat-downs, ostensibly based on reasonable suspicion that the person was armed. Yet the searches \u00adalmost never discovered guns and rarely found weapons of any sort.<\/p>\n

When 9 out of 10 people subjected to such treatment, sometimes repeatedly, happen to be black or Hispanic, that pattern is troubling, regardless of the policy\u2019s intent. Ditto for when blacks are nearly four times as likely as whites to be arrested for marijuana possession, even though they are only slightly more likely to be cannabis consumers. And likewise, an irrational legal distinction between the smoked and snorted forms of \u00adcocaine \u2014 a distinction initially supported by African-American politicians \u2014 means black defendants get substantially longer sentences than white defendants for essentially the same offense.<\/p>\n

Other disparities are harder to explain. Among people who \u00adreported police encounters in a \u00adnationwide survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks were 2.5 times as likely as whites to \u00adreport that the officers had used or threatened force.<\/p>\n

One study after another has found that black drivers are much more likely than white drivers to be searched during routine traffic stops, and those searches are less likely to discover contraband. That suggests racial bias, conscious or not, plays a role in deciding who seems suspicious.<\/p>\n

In a 2016 speech, Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, explained what such disparities mean in practice, noting that he had been stopped by police seven times in a single year. \u201cThe vast majority of the time,\u201d he said, \u201cI was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or some other reason just as trivial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott has even been hassled by Capitol Hill police officers who thought he seemed out of place, notwithstanding the pin identifying him as a senator. He described a former staffer who was so tired of being mistaken for a car thief by DC cops that he traded in his Chrysler 300 for a less conspicuous model.<\/p>\n

By the time he retired from the US Navy after a 20-year military \u00adcareer, Theodore Johnson recalls in a National Review essay, he had been pulled over about 40 times, \u00adincluding one occasion during college when he spent a night in jail because his driver\u2019s license had recently expired. The cops stopped him because they assumed his cigar was packed with marijuana.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine the frustration, the irritation, the sense of a loss of dignity that accompanies each of those stops,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI do not know many African-American men who do not have a very similar story to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

That story provides crucial context for the anger provoked by Floyd\u2019s death. One needn\u2019t believe that every cop is a bigot, or that American society is irredeemably racist, to recognize that the problem goes beyond a few \u201cbad apples.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @JacobSullum<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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