Had Nace used softer language, had he asked politely and said please and thank you, he still would have stopped, searched and collected information on an innocent person for having done nothing more than speaking to someone he passed on the street. Because thats the policy. Philadelphias use of stop-and-frisk doubled in 2009, two years after the election of Mayor Michael Nutter (in case anyone were led to believe its only white mayors and police commissioners responsible for implementing this tactic, both Nutter and Commissioner Charles Ramsey are black), and in a similar fashion to what has recently happened in New York City, it was challenged in court and the city agreed to make adjustments to the policy. However, it still exists, and still disproportionately targets black and Hispanic men. And one cant divorce this from the fact that school budgets, affecting mostly black students, have been slashed, while hundreds of millions are being poured into a new prison facility, or the youth curfew that was implemented a few years ago. Through colorblind language, there exists a concerted effort to criminalize the presence of black and brown youth in public and shuttle them off to bigger, shinier prisons...... Full artical and details READ!! !!
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 22:38:32 +0000
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