Comments on: Blacks were disproportionately targeted by Ferguson police https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/03/blacks-were-disproportionately-targeted-by-ferguson-police/ Sat, 07 Mar 2015 08:03:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Astrostevo https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/03/blacks-were-disproportionately-targeted-by-ferguson-police/#comment-240499 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 08:03:17 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=8186#comment-240499

Blacks were disproportionately targeted by Ferguson police

Well, ain’t that a surprise!

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“We might as well learn not to expect nothing from Southern justice. They’re going to stack the cards against us every time.” Sterling said.’ (Italics original.)
– Page 60, ‘Black Like Me’, John Howard Griffin, Panther Books, 1960, 1961.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/03/blacks-were-disproportionately-targeted-by-ferguson-police/#comment-237886 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:34:30 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=8186#comment-237886 Kieran, exactly. I want to see more of the report, but it looks like the determination will be that the Ferguson police and courts were acting unconstitutionally, which, if based on the numbers, means bias.

]]> By: Kieran Suckling https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/03/blacks-were-disproportionately-targeted-by-ferguson-police/#comment-237870 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:45:02 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=8186#comment-237870 Michael 2,

African Americans were searched disproportionately often, but of searched-people, whites were more likely to possess drugs. Thus decisions to search whites were more driven by cause than decisions to search African Americans. This is strong evidence countering your suggestion that police were proportionately targeting criminals by disproportionate by targeting African Americans.

Kieran Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/03/blacks-were-disproportionately-targeted-by-ferguson-police/#comment-237815 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:26:19 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=8186#comment-237815 This was a federal investigation. You can read it tomorrow.

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