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An “own goal,” an “unforced error” and a “foot-in-mouth gaffe” are some of the terms being used to describe Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial remark about stop-and-frisk uttered on his radio show last Friday. He told his audience that he believed, “We disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.”
With 685,724 people stopped in 2011 and 533,042 last year—90 percent of whom were Black or Latino, and with only a 10 percent arrest rate—Bloomberg determined that it is the 9 percent of stopped whites who are being targeted, while the number of people of color who are stopped should be higher.
http://www.amsterdamnews.com/politi...cle_3a1ea9fa-e42b-11e2-bd7e-0019bb2963f4.html
With 685,724 people stopped in 2011 and 533,042 last year—90 percent of whom were Black or Latino, and with only a 10 percent arrest rate—Bloomberg determined that it is the 9 percent of stopped whites who are being targeted, while the number of people of color who are stopped should be higher.
http://www.amsterdamnews.com/politi...cle_3a1ea9fa-e42b-11e2-bd7e-0019bb2963f4.html