New York – Using a vast array of statistics and crime rate data, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly vehemently defended his NYPD in a Monday Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal.
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In his WALL STREET JOURNAL (http://on.wsj.com/11bHxSJ) submission, Kelly focuses a lot of his attention on continued charges that New York minorities are stopped and questioned at a substantially higher rate than whites.
In explaining current NYPD policy, Kelly cites data which show that minority crime rates justify the lopsided numbers, while explaining at the same time the evolution of the policies.
Kelly also cites U.S. Supreme Court, city and state laws that provide cover for some of the controversial policies.
Kelly even addresses concerns over the NYPD’s online surveillance programs, explaining in detail how such policy is covered under ever-changing Handschu Guidelines, a set of rules created to protect those actively involved in political protest.
Kelly ends saying, “As a city, we have to face the reality that New York’s minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime. To ignore that fact, as our critics would have us do, would be a form of discrimination in itself.”
fine. So if the pretext for “stop and frisk” is grabbing guns (which is at least arguably a good concept), then _only_ charge the stopeees if there’s a gun on them. End the arrests for marijuana and other issues.
The commuters from white flight suburbia getting off the train at Penn Station use pot pretty much at the same levels as the folk in Bed Stuy. But no one’s going to catch them since only a minimal number of them get stopped and run through the system.
statistics are lies with twisted numbers
In the WSJ, Ray Kelly deliberately twists the NYC murder rate history. http://goo.gl/CGGr9g