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Heather Mac Donald Discusses Stop and Frisk

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Channel: Sean Giordano · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Dennis Prager has a short interview with Heather Mac Donald. Her book, "The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe," is the best on the subject. But one should note the primary driver for stopping this is a false narrative. For instance, the judge in the most famous case in New York declared, among other things, that the idea that blacks have a higher crime rate than other groups is a “stereotype.”

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➤ Judge Scheindlin used a population benchmark for measuring the lawfulness of police actions: if police stops didn’t match population ratios, they were unconstitutional, in Scheindlin’s view. Such a methodology ignores the massive disparities in criminal offending in New York City. Blacks commit over three-quarters of all shootings, though they are 23 percent of the city’s population. Add Hispanic shootings to black shootings and you account for 98 percent of all shootings in New York City. Whites are 34 percent of the city’s population; they commit less than 2 percent of all shootings. Such disparities in gun violence mean that virtually every time the police are called out on a gun run—meaning that someone has been shot—they are called to minority neighborhoods on behalf of minority victims, and, if any witness or victim is cooperating with the police, being given a description of a minority suspect. The reality of crime, not phantom police racism, determines the incidence of police activity, including pedestrian stops.

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