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Friday, November 23, 2007

Study downplays bias in NYPD stop-frisk policy

Highlight: "This is a completely dishonest and misleading report that simply ignores the documented role of race in police stops," said Christopher Dunn, the NYCLU's associate legal director. "Most troubling, while figures in the report reveal that blacks improperly are singled out for stops, frisks and even the use of force, the report devotes itself not to confronting racial profiling, but instead to conjuring up possible alternative explanations." Full story

Now we are to believe that racial profiling is an urban legend? The Establishment is famous for pissing on your head and telling you it’s raining.