Liberal’s squirm fest
It would be illuminating if the NYCLU suggested what the proper percentage of stops should be for the various racial and ethnic groups. Doing so might force it to acknowledge the following facts about crime in New York:
Blacks commit about 68 percent of all violent crime in the city, according to police records, though they are just 24 percent of the city’s population. That crime number comes from victims and witnesses when they report attacks to the police. According to data from victims and witnesses, blacks commit about 82 percent of all shootings and 72 percent of all robberies. Whites commit about 5 percent of all violent crimes, though they make up 35 percent of the city’s population, and commit 1 percent of shootings and about 4 percent of robberies. **
** More often than not law enforcement considers mestizos and other uncategorized ethnies as white–which means the rates for “white crime” could well be much lower. — Ed