NYPD chief Bratton says hiring black officers is difficult: 'So many have spent time in jail'
Source: The Guardian
Hiring more non-white officers is difficult because so many would-be recruits have criminal records, the New York police commissioner, Bill Bratton, has said.
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We have a significant population gap among African American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we cant hire them, Bratton said in an interview with the Guardian.
Police departments, responding to widespread protests against several high-profile police killings of black men, are boosting efforts to recruit more non-white officers. But budget restrictions, strained relations between police and minority communities and, according to Bratton, a history of indiscriminate policing tactics that disproportionately target black and Latino men complicate the departments goal of racial parity.
Bratton blamed the unfortunate consequences of an explosion in stop, question and frisk incidents that caught many young men of color in the net. As a result, Bratton said, the population pool (of eligible non-white officers) is much smaller than it might ordinarily have been.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/bratton-hiring-black-nypd-officers-criminal-records
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)men complicate the departments goal of racial parity."
Gee, almost like it was by design.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)is purity, not parity.
msongs
(67,509 posts)unblock
(52,515 posts)i'd bet 24 hours in jail during training would do most police departments a world of good.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)They all do the same fucked up shit-
They have to change the culture across the board and have body cameras on every single fucking one-
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madville
(7,413 posts)with my previous tech job. You are 100% right, hiring more black or latino officers is not an answer, it's the culture of policing. Black and Hispanic cops dislike the same "thugs" and criminals that white officers dislike, sometimes much more, their race or ethnicity doesn't change that mentality.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Police violence is a disproportionately male problem, women officers have much lower rates of complaints and payouts.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)brooklynite
(95,070 posts).....than to hire the ones with prison time after.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)That a history of indiscriminate policing tactics that disproportionately target black and Latino men would complicate the departments goal of racial parity.
Rex
(65,616 posts)NO SHIT. I wonder why.
BumRushDaShow
(130,143 posts)The below song was famous 22 years ago -
At this point, the race of the officer has increasingly become irrelevant as whole departments are trained and brainwashed to shoot blacks on sight. When you have mug shots of only blacks used for their training target practice, then there is a problem.
And the cycle of life continues to turn...
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)That was in 2006 and the conviction was in 1994. I am no longer a police officer but only due to getting burnt out and wanting to do something different.
graegoyle
(532 posts)Does no one else see the oxymoron/irony/stupidity of that statement? Indiscriminate discrimination?