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Posted on 11/22/2013, 2:04:01 AM by Altura Ct.
Data collected during the first six months of the year also reveal that 74% of the city's shooting victims were black, and an additional 21.5% were Hispanic. NYPD top cop Raymond Kelly has used similar numbers to justify stop-and-frisk, while black community activists say the frustrating statistics reflect the stark reality of economics in poorer neighborhoods.
NYPD statistics on the first six months of the year show that 74% of the city's 567 shooting victims were black, and 21.5% were Hispanic. If you're black, you are almost 25 times more likely to be shot in New York City than a white person — and you are also more likely to be arrested for pulling a trigger, alarming new NYPD statistics show.
Data collected during the first six months of the year reveal 74% of the city’s 567 shooting victims were black. An additional 21.5% were Hispanic. Less than 3% of shooting victims were white, according to the report.
Blacks also accounted for the majority — about 70% — of the 222 people arrested for shooting someone during the first half of 2013, according to the NYPD’s Crime and Enforcement Activity report.
Black community activists said the frustrating statistics, which have barely fluctuated since 2009, tell the stark stories of economics in poorer neighborhoods and the NYPD’s laser-like focus on communities of color.
“It’s all a battle between the haves and the have-nots,” said Tony Herbert, president of the National Action Network’s Brooklyn East Chapter. “In the end, it’s survival of the fittest, and there are some who want to bring weapons into the mix. That’s what it comes down to.” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has used similar statistics to defend stop-and-frisk, claiming cops stop more people in minority communities not because of their racial makeup, but because more crimes happen there.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly (pictured) has used similar statistics to defend the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk in minority communities.
“Last year, 97% of all shooting victims were black or Hispanic and reside in low-income neighborhoods,” Kelly recently said as he lashed out against Judge Shira Scheindlin’s decision that stop-and-frisk was unconstitutional and appointed a monitor to oversee the program — a reform put on hold after the city appealed. “There were more stops with suspicious activity in neighborhoods with higher crime because that’s where the crime is.” The six-month report also shows blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be the victims of murder, rape, robbery, and assault — and to be arrested for committing those violent felonies — than whites.
Blacks compose 25.5% of the city’s residents, according to the 2010 census. Non-Hispanic whites make up 33.3%, while Hispanics and Latinos make up 28.6% and Asians 12.7%. The only crimes that saw more whites victimized were larcenies, both grand and petty, which include pickpocketing, credit card fraud and theft of more than $1,000 in property, according to the report. Yet about 50% of the people arrested for grand larceny and 45.8% of those charged with petty larceny were black, the report shows.
Blacks also account for more than 55% of those who cops stopped and frisked, the report said. Hispanics constituted 29% of those stopped and frisked. “Many of us have struggled with crimes in our own communities, but clearly we have to question the records,” the Rev. Al Sharpton told the Daily News on Tuesday. “It’s no surprise that you get more results in a community you are concentrating on.”
As of Monday, seven people have been killed by the police. Eight people were killed by cops in 2010, which is considered an 'all-time low,' according to one police source.
The NYPD’s report comes on the heels of news that the city is poised to end 2013 with the lowest number of fatal police shootings in four decades. Seven people have been shot and killed by police as of Monday, a number the city hasn’t approached since 2010, when eight people were fatally shot by cops — an “all-time low” according to one police source. Last year, 16 fatal shootings by police were reported. That number was near 1998’s tally, when 19 people lost their lives to police bullets, according to the NYPD’s Annual Firearm Discharge Report.
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Get Whitey!!!
The new mayor will be getting right on this problem.
>> “There were more stops with suspicious activity in neighborhoods with higher crime because that’s where the crime is.”
Its sad that the “afucanmurcan comoonty” can’t see that simple fact.
Goodness. Listening to the haters on here talk you’d think it was 100%
Fernando Mateo, head of the New York taxicab union, urges his drivers to profile blacks and Hispanics for their own safety: “The God’s honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these drivers are blacks and Hispanics.”
Mateo is what The New York Times would describe as “a black Hispanic” Yet he may be closer to the ‘hood than Holder, who says he was stopped by police when running to a movie — in Georgetown.
Which raises a relevant question. Georgetown is an elitist enclave of a national capital that has been ruled by black mayors for half a century. It’s never had a white mayor.
Is Holder saying we’ve got racist cops in the district where Obama carried 86 percent of the white vote and 97 percent of the black vote? And his son should fear the white cops in Washington, D.C.?
townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2013/07/26/black-americas-real-problem-isnt-white-racism-n1644184/page/full
Thomas Sowell also wrote an article on the black widows and orphans because even the black cab drivers get in trouble for staying safe.
NYPD stats: 70% of carrying illegally suspects in first half of 2013 were white Mafioso`s
“It’s all a battle between the haves and the have-nots,”
Yeppers. There are those who have morals and ethics and there are the others that have them not.
Dont worry deblasio has a plan,............I fell sick
Wait a minute....
I thought NY had no gun shootings? Or was it that they just had fewer deaths from gunshots?
Sounds like those boys need some more range time
“Fernando Mateo, head of the New York taxicab union, urges his drivers to profile blacks and Hispanics for their own safety: “The God’s honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these drivers are blacks and Hispanics.”
Years ago they tried to illustrate the racism of cabbies by showing how hard it was for black men to hail a cab. The story quickly died when it became clear that the cabbies passing them by were...black.
Yeppers. There are those who have morals and ethics and there are the others that have them not.
Excellent! Can I borrow that to use on my leftie neighbors when they spout?
The new mayor will be getting right on this problem.
LOL Yeah, that commie is going to run all the rational whites out of NYC and the problem will just move on to NJ.
Be my guest!
“Black community activists said the frustrating statistics, which have barely fluctuated since 2009, tell the stark stories of economics in poorer neighborhoods and the NYPD’s laser-like focus on communities of color.”
I call BS on this one.
This is a weak, oblique plea for more government intervention in these neighborhoods, as if the billions thrown away on assistance to the economically disadvantaged to date have done any good at all.
At this point, we have (in the US) a ‘poor’ socio-economic class that enjoys the highest standard of living of any ‘poor’ socio-economic class in the world.
The ill-advised War on Poverty has succeeded in building a demanding entitlement class across the nation, huddled (for the most part) in major metro areas. NYC is the biggest.
And, as to the NYPD’s ‘laser-like focus on communities of color’? What do you expect? That’s where the crime is...
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