NY Times Columnist Thinks All Poor Black People Think Alike

Charles Blow is a psychiatrist, who shares NYC police Commissioner William Bratton's view of poor black people. He stereotypes them contrary to reason. But under current prevailing standards of journalism and politics reason is offensive to many.  

[From article]
The “fear” [New York Times Columnist, Charles] Blow attributes to “poor black people” was nowhere in evidence. Instead, I heard what I always hear from law-abiding residents of “poor black” neighborhoods: an urgent desire for more policing, and above all, for the enforcement of public-order laws in the face of an ongoing breakdown of informal social controls.
“Oh, how lovely when we see [the police]!” an elderly woman from Hunts Point exclaimed during the meeting. “They are my friends.” Retired transit worker Earl Cleveland told me: “Where I live, the police are very courteous; I’ve never had a problem with them. They do their best.” During the public Q&A with the precinct’s commander, residents complained repeatedly about large groups of youths hanging out on corners. “There’s too much fighting,” one woman said. “There was more than 100 kids the other day; they beat on a girl about 14 years old.”
Another man asked: “Why are they hanging out in crowds on the corners? No one does anything about it. Can’t you arrest them for loitering? They’re perched there like birds.” A middle-aged man wondered: “Do truant officers exist anymore?”
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The puzzle for the police is what critics like Blow want them to do — proactively police and be accused of racism, or back off and wait for people to get shot and be accused of a dereliction of duty.

http://nypost.com/2015/06/09/what-minority-communities-really-want-from-the-nypd/

What minority communities really want from the NYPD
By Heather Mac Donald
New York Post
June 9, 2015 | 8:27pm