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steve2470

(37,456 posts)
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 07:07 PM Dec 2014

Off duty, black cops in New York feel threatened by fellow police officers

From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life.

Garner, a 43-year-old black man suspected of illegally peddling loose cigarettes, died in July after a white officer put him in a chokehold. His death, and that of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, has sparked a slew of nationwide protests against police tactics. On Saturday, those tensions escalated after a black gunman, who wrote of avenging the black deaths on social media, shot dead two New York policemen.

The protests and the ambush of the uniformed officers pose a major challenge for New York Mayor Bill De Blasio. The mayor must try to ease damaged relations with a police force that feels he hasn’t fully supported them, while at the same time bridging a chasm with communities who say the police unfairly target them.

What’s emerging now is that, within the thin blue line of the NYPD, there is another divide – between black and white officers.

Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/off-duty-black-cops-in-new-york-feel-threatened-by-fellow-police-officers/

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Off duty, black cops in New York feel threatened by fellow police officers (Original Post) steve2470 Dec 2014 OP
good article Gothmog Dec 2014 #1
Excellent insider's view JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #2
Thank you for this, steve. Cha Dec 2014 #3
mahalo Cha, my pleasure! nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #4
Wish I could say I am shocked n/t etherealtruth Dec 2014 #5
This article could be years old. maced666 Dec 2014 #6
It's dated December 23, 2014. NOLALady Dec 2014 #7

JustAnotherGen

(31,681 posts)
2. Excellent insider's view
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 08:07 PM
Dec 2014

24 LEO's who are African American out of 25 interviewed. I'd say that's pretty telling.

 

maced666

(771 posts)
6. This article could be years old.
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 08:58 PM
Dec 2014

I remember reading polls like this two years ago. Five years ago.Never addressed now look at the mess.

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