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In reply to the discussion: African Americans are targeted by racist, white cops, routinely...Period [View all]JonLP24
(29,929 posts)across the board. I think that is all the OP was saying.
Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police (they experience racial profiling when they're off-duty)
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.
The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.
Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyns upmarket Prospect Park. "I had my ID on me so it didnt escalate," said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. "But whats suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/23/us-usa-police-nypd-race-insight-idUSKBN0K11EV20141223