It seems like every time a police shooting like the one in Ferguson, there seems to be a racial divide. With the minorities on one side (usually the side of the person getting shot) and the white (caucasians) on the side of law enforcement.
Now it's not 100% but I am sure from watching the difference in coverage between say MSNBC and FOX that there is a racial divide on that.
So I propose that question to you guys. Why do whites tend to take the cops side while minorites tend to take the other side? Is it because minorities are criminals and so they take the criminals side as suggested by some members on this forum?
Here is an interesting study from New York's stop and frisk law:
source: http://www.wnyc.org/story/212460-cit...ace-and-class/One in five people stopped last year by the New York City police department was a teenager between the ages of 14 and 18, according to a WNYC analysis of recently released police data.
Eighty-six percent of those teenagers who were stopped were either black or Latino, most of them boys.
Last year, there were more than 120,000 stops of black and Latino kids between 14 and 18. The total number of black and Latino boys that age in the entire city isn’t much more than that – about 177,000 – which strongly suggests a teen male with dark skin in New York City will probably get stopped and frisked by the time he’s graduated from high school.
The debate about stop and frisk’s racial disparities comes down to opponents who say it racially profiles and supporters who say the people stopped fit the descriptions of most suspects. The conversation, until now, has been dominated by lawyers, politicians, police officials and community leaders.
But ask junior high and high school students around the city, from affluent to low-income neighborhoods, and most appear to agree on one main premise: who gets stopped and frisked has everything to do with where you live and what color your skin is.
120,000 out of 177,000 black and latino kids were stopped and frisked. Now ask yourself this, if you are white and live in a city where 120,000 out 177,000 white kids were stopped and frisked, how would your perception of cops be?
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