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Taharqa_ posted...

It's pointless to ask for a specific law or policy that discriminates against blacks in this day in age, Jim Crow is dead, what matters is the intent and the subsequent effects of these laws in this day and age. Changes in voting rights laws is not discriminatory on paper but in effect it is since it's peculiar how it always affects areas that are largely populated by blacks. When NY had stop and frisk it was not discriminatory on paper but police were stopping black and brown people all over the city to a combined 88 percent in 2011, only 9 percent of whites were stopped and 88 percent of all total stops that year there was nothing on the persons being detained.

And crime rates plummeted in New York, didnt they?

If young black men are more likely to perpetrate violent crime and crime with a firearm, would it not make sense to stop them more often than other demographics?

Probably saved more black lives than the ones it inconvenienced.

Actually crime in NYC has been on a decline for the last 27 years or so.

Like I said, 88 percent of people stopped during the time of Stop and Frisk had done nothing wrong. If cops were searching for drugs or illegal weapons then a nearly 90 percent rate of no hits is not something that was working.
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