By Heather MacDonald
Fake fees of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting profits of the decade, specially in America's internal towns. this can be the message of Heather Mac Donald's new ebook, within which she brings her particular model of tricky and sincere journalism to the present struggle opposed to the police. The anti-profiling campaign, she fees, prospers on an lack of information of policing and a willful blindness to the demographics of crime. In cautious experiences from big apple and different significant towns around the kingdom, Ms. Mac Donald investigates the workings of the police, the debate over racial profiling, and the anti-profiling lobby's destructive results on black americans. The relief in city crime, one of many nation's sign coverage successes of the Nineties, has benefited black groups much more dramatically than white neighborhoods, she indicates. through policing internal towns actively after lengthy forget, police officers have allowed company and civil society to flourish there once again. yet assaults on police, centering on fake fees of police racism and racial profiling, and spearheaded through activists, the click, or even the Justice division, have slowed the luck and threaten to opposite it. Ms. Mac Donald appears on the fact in the back of the allegations and writes concerning the black law enforcement officials you by no means heard approximately, the clicking assurance of policing, and policing concepts around the kingdom. Her iconoclastic findings demolish the present anti-cop orthodoxy.
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Since the majority of c r i ~ n eis committed by minorities against minorities, inebitably the subjects of frisks will be minorities too. In talking to city residents about the police, the Times found only resentment and suspicion. An article on March 21 on the Model Block program contained a characteristic touch. The paper had triumphantly discovered one of the city's few neighborhoods to turn down the program, in which police cordon off and intensively patrol a street to keep drug dealers from returning.
He shrugs meaningfully. Across the street a slender twenty-two-year-old with sunken cheeks and a red bandana around his head is leaning against a chain-link fence. Antonio Espinosa, a carpenter's aide, looks like a prime target for police harassment, but somehow the cops have Are Cops Racist? / 46 missed him. "I've never had a problem with the police," he says in Spanish. " Many people will find this law-and-order view naive. But naive or not, it has many proponents among minorities. Mario has come to a community meeting at the 43rd Precinct, where the Dia110 shooting occurred, to ask the police to clean up a drug problem in his neighborhood.
Such investigations violate the reigning fiction in anti-racial profiling rhetoric: that all groups commit crime and other infractions at equal rates. It follows from this central fiction that any differences in the rate at which the police interact with certain citizens result only from police bias, not from differences in citizen behavior. Despite the glaring flaws in every racial profiling study heretofore available, the press and the politicians jumped on the antiprofiling bandwagon. How could they lose?
