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发帖数: 16484 | 1 如此弱智的逻辑，居然能当记者。美国的媒体如果被这样的人把持，煽风点火，我看美
国早晚要发生更严重的种族冲突。
As Ferguson, Mo., braces for the decision by a grand jury that is
considering whether to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting
of an unarmed black teenager — which sparked protests over alleged police
bias — there is evidence the St. Louis suburb isn't alone when it comes to
racial disparity.
According to USA Today — which compared arrests reported by local police
departments to the FBI in 2011 and 2012 with data from the 2010 U.S. census
— at least 1,581 police departments arrest black people at a higher rate
than Ferguson, where blacks are arrested nearly three times more than people
of other races. (The FBI does not track arrests of Hispanics.)
That includes police departments in cities like New York, Chicago, Detroit,
San Francisco and St. Louis. The St. Louis County Police Department arrested
black people (113.7 per 1,000 residents) at more than three times the rate
of nonblacks (32.4).
"Those disparities are easier to measure than they are to explain," USA
Today's Brad Heath wrote. "They could be a reflection of biased policing;
they could just as easily be a byproduct of the vast economic and
educational gaps that persist across much of the USA — factors closely tied
to crime rates."
[Interactive: Compare arrest rates across America]
"That does not mean police are discriminating," David Harris, a law
professor at the University of Pittsburgh, told the paper. "But it does mean
it's worth looking at. It means you might have a problem, and you need to
pay attention."
The paper's review did not include thousands of smaller departments that
serve areas with a small black population, or most police departments in
Alabama, Florida and Illinois, because those states had not reported
complete arrest data to the FBI.
But just 173 of the 3,538 police departments included in USA Today's study
arrested black people at a rate equal to or lower than other racial groups.
"Something needs to be done about that," Ezekiel Edwards, head of the ACLU's
Criminal Law Reform Project, told the paper. "In 2014, we shouldn't
continue to see this kind of staggering disparity wherever we look."
The paper found one stunning example of racial disparity in Dearborn, Mich.:
More than half of the people Dearborn police arrested in 2011 and 2012
were black, according to reports they submitted to the FBI. By comparison,
about 4% of the city's residents are black, as are about a quarter of the
people who live in Metropolitan Detroit. Over those two years, the
department reported arresting 4,500 black people — 500 more than lived in
the city. As a result, the arrest rate for blacks, compared with the city's
population, was 26 times higher than for people of other races.
But Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad disputed the notion that his
officers were targeting people based on race.
"We treat everyone the same," he said. | w*p
发帖数: 16484 | 2 写这个垃圾文章的记者Dylan Stableford是个白人，应该是个装13的liberal |
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