These young men complain about being stopped by police. It reminds me of Obama, Holder and multiple black Harvard University Law School students complaining that racism hindered their careers. Poor little wealthy and powerful boys. In this case the non white youth are stopped by police when they are outside, on the street, in public. I am white, 70 years old. For the past 44 years I've been (and continue to be) under 24/7 surveillance, and harassment by police, Communists, and crime families. The ACLU repeatedly told me, "We cannot help you." But they issue reports about these young men, whose sleep is not disturbed, and who use computers without surveillance and tampering. The police do not broadcast relentless character assassination about them as the FBI and their army of informants did and do to me. One executive director of the ACLU told me in 1983, "You don't need a lawyer. You need a law firm." That was 30 years ago. So why is this such a big deal?
[From article]
“I wouldn’t be able to count, honestly. At one point I was getting stopped multiple times a day,” said Ponte-Capellan, who noted being stopped and questioned by police hit a peak in high school.
“I feel powerless, like I have no rights,” said the 23-year-old from Roxbury.
“Like a second-class citizen almost,” Richiez said. “You’re treated based on their perceptions only.”
According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, blacks are disproportionately stopped by police in Boston when compared to the white population.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/10/stopped_by_cops_too_many_times_to_count
Stopped by cops too many times to count
Thursday, October 9, 2014
By: Erica Moura
Boston Herald
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This ACLU report cites a Rutgers-Harvard researcher. In my case Harvard University campus police now lead the harassment after 40 previous years. I call them the bottom feeders, abusing the carcass of a old man.
[From article]
“I can’t explain why these racial patterns exist ... but it’s clear there are problematic patterns,” said Anthony Braga, the Rutgers criminologist and Harvard fellow whose analysis of more than 204,000 so-called “civilian-police encounters” in Boston between 2007 and 2010 was the basis of yesterday’s American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts report that accused the Boston Police Department of “racially biased policing.”
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The police department said the findings show that cops are targeting gang members in “high-crime areas.”
Cops are also repeatedly stopping those with criminal records or “gang membership,” according to police, who say just 5 percent of the individuals stopped accounted for 40 percent of the total reports.
Police Commissioner William B. Evans said that the use of the type of police report the ACLU studied has dropped 42 percent between 2008 and last year, though officials said they did not have a racial breakdown of who was stopped during that period.
“We aren’t out there stopping every African-American child for no reason at all,” Evans said. “We put most of our officers, like we did this summer ... into the areas where we see the gun violence. And unfortunately that is where most of that is populated by African-American young males. It’s only reasonable to believe that we’re going to stop and talk to more black males than any other part of the city.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/10/aclu_accuses_boston_police_of_racial_profiling
ACLU accuses Boston police of racial profiling
Thursday, October 9, 2014
By: Matt Stout, Antonio Planas
Boston Herald
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