vincentML
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ORIGINAL: vincentML Here's some background information that might clear up his dismay over why blacks feel besieged: Here's some more... Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly have repeatedly made the point that stop and frisk rates, while higher among non-whites, generally match the racial statistics on crime suspects . . . 90 percent of the city's murder suspects are black or Latino, and 87 percent of people stopped by police are black and Latino. Whites are 7 percent of suspects and 9 percent of stops. ~NBC K. per your link, Bloomberg made his radio statement in June 2013; the Judge made her ruling in August 2013. Bloomberg blamed the media for reporting disproportions. The judge pointed out that 88% of the stops lead to no further action: no arrests, no summons. So, 88% of 4 million stops were innocent! You don't suppose Bloomberg was trying to get out ahead of the impending ruling, do you? And this: New York City had fewer murders in 2013 than any year in its recorded history, according to a statement from the mayor’s office. As of Sunday, December 29, 333 people were murdered in New York City, a 20 percent drop from last year’s record low of 417 murders. The less-than-a-murder-a-day rate is a dramatic change from 2001, when there were 641 murders in New York City, and from 1991, when the murder rate skyrocketed to a record-high 2,245. In 1963, when the NYPD first started recording the number of murders per year, there were 548 homicides in the city. Twice this year, New York City went for a week or longer without a single murder. During a cold spell in January, the city was murder-less for nine consecutive days. In October, the city went seven straight days without a homicide. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly have previously attributed the steep decline in the city’s murder rate to an aggressive stop-and-frisk policy. Statistics show, however, that 2013’s historically low murder rate coincided with a 60 percent drop in police stops. Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago also experienced a big drop in murders this year, The New York Times reports. NYC MURDER RATES DROP WHEN STORM TROOPER TACTICS ARE DECREASED
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