Comment Re:Not even wrong. (Score 1) 246
Smart people don't get defensive and make up silly stories. They use mistakes as learning opportunities to educate themselves better.
Smart people don't get defensive and make up silly stories. They use mistakes as learning opportunities to educate themselves better.
A half-dozen, no; 30 people, yes. The probability of getting all-KKK members is microscopically small, and is accounted for in the confidence level of the estimate. You simply don't know what you're talking about, and are making a classic perennial mistake of the uninformed, is all.
What, pray tell, does stop-and-frisk "do to make NYC work", if anything? It practically never finds weapons or drugs. It's not even targeted at the cohort most likely to use drugs. It's just raw gamesmanship by the NYPD (look at our mighty stop numbers), against the usual part of the population who takes it on the chin because their poor, uneducated, and don't have the power to fight back (legally or politically). You might as well claim that slavery was a requirement "to make the South work".
Totally disagree, as a resident of NYC for about 10 years now. What was it, 2 weeks back, I put my folks (senior citizens from Maine) on the subway to go home by themselves for the first time (early meeting for me at work that day) -- and reported being offered help up stairs multiple times, by both black and white people. Frankly, I'm more prone to trusting strangers here than back in Maine where I grew up.
If anything I would say the converse: NYC policing is only able to be as corrupt as it is in such a large and diverse city. When the managers break the law and say, "you're required to write 20 tickets and one arrest every month", they can pick on the black neighborhoods to dish out abuse, because they know they're poor and powerless. The war on drugs is effectively indistinguishable from simple race-based sabotage.
Have you ever lived in NYC, or are you just responding via TV show knowledge?
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