More muggin': The Assailants

apologize in advance for a totally inappropriate post, but, can you imagine how much you'd clean up around brownstone brooklyn if you were an asian guy with a bike and a plastic bag full of soap bars? you just drive up on the side walk, wallop some yupsters and move on! i've heard "wonton!" shouted at me enough while biking through crown heights to know that it doesn't take much to blend into that disguise...

totally unintended. i just couldn't imagine doorknobs looking like someone's large chicken lo mein hanging from a bike handle.

cougars are indeed predatory!

what is it with men, anyway?

I didn't know that hundreds of thousands of people were stopped by the PD in stop-and-frisks in 2006-7. For me, that's what comes to mind when anyone starts racial profiling and talking about YBM.

The NYPD released their database of stops to the Rand Corportation for a study that they published, but refuse to release the raw data. 850,000 stops? That's alot in a city of 8 million.
Anyway, here's the story

NYT last week

New York Times
3 Groups Lend Names to Suit Asking Release of Database

By AL BAKER
Published: January 10, 2008

Three groups, including The New York Times, have filed papers in support of a lawsuit seeking to have the police make public a database of officers’ recordings on more than 850,000 stops of civilians between January 2006 and September of last year.

The New York Civil Liberties Union filed the suit in State Supreme Court in Manhattan in November arguing that the Police Department’s computerized data on stop-and-frisk activities should be turned over for analysis so the role of race in street encounters can be better understood.

In addition to The Times, the New York City Bar Association and an unofficial collection of 21 scholars from around the country have joined in the effort to wrest the database from the Bloomberg administration to shine more light on what is being called one of the most elemental issues in law enforcement.

Requests for the raw data have been denied, and Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly of the Police Department has said that his officers are not practicing racial profiling in street stops. Requests from the City Council for the database have not been granted.

Jesse I. Levine, a senior counsel in the general litigation division of the city’s Law Department, said the papers from the three groups were being examined. As for the overarching suit, he said, “We will have a response to that defending the commissioner’s position.”

The city must answer the suit by Tuesday, said Christopher T. Dunn, associate legal director of the civil liberties group, who said the judge must still decide whether the groups can join the case.

The civil liberties group filed its suit a week before the Rand Corporation released a report in November on its independent assessment of the stops. The three groups sought to join the suit after the report’s release. The department — through the Police Foundation — commissioned the nonprofit Rand Corporation for the study early last year after its release of statistics showing a large increase in the number of street stops led some critics to suggest that minorities were unfairly singled out, a claim the police deny.

The department’s database — with details on the time and location of stops, the reasons for them and the race of those stopped — was given to the Rand analysts. At one point, the Rand study states, “Over all, after adjusting for stop circumstances, we generally found small racial differences in the rates of frisk, search, use of force, and arrest.”

The department’s refusal to make the database public, however, “is out of step with the practices of major police departments elsewhere in the country,” according to the brief written by Andrew G. Celli Jr., a lawyer for the group of 21, which includes criminologists, economists, sociologists and other academics.

pitu wrote: I didn't know that hundreds of thousands of people were stopped by the PD in stop-and-frisks in 2006-7. For me, that's what comes to mind when anyone starts racial profiling and talking about YBM.

The NYPD released their database of stops to the Rand Corportation for a study that they published, but refuse to release the raw data. 850,000 stops? That's alot in a city of 8 million.
Anyway, here's the story

There are a few things to remember...

-There are people who were stopped multiple times over the course of time. Multiple SQF reports were submitted on the same person.
-SQF reports are often submitted as part of an arrest package. For example...While canvassing the area after a report of a robbery Officer Crabtree and Officer Flatfoot stop somebody matching the description provided by the officers interviewing the victim. When the victim is brought to the see the person stopped he says,"That's him. That's the guy who stole my Mickey Mouse watch." The stop and question ultimately led to an arrest and a SQF report should be prepared.
-SQF reports are part of a performance goal. This is especially true for officers assigned to "impact" or some type of summons overtime. Often the names for these SQFs come from the mail left laying around a vestibule, tombstones, or the sports section.

wait. what's an SQF? single queer female?

daver wrote: Stop Question and Frisk.


P.S. Ya freaks!

oh. sorry, I read every internet post like a personal ad.

+1 ... thinking the same thing.

I cannot stop thinking about these posts...I walk home from 7th Ave Q,B or Crunch at approx. 7pm each weekday evening. Up Park, north on Vanderbilt, then east on Prospect Place to my apt. Or sometimes east on Park.

I've been trying to time it so there's peeps in front of me, and the adjacent sidewalk, and some behind me. Everyone that walks past me I tend to look in the eyes. I walk pretty damn fast. I getting a wee bit paranoid, man. Especially when I think of my s/o walking the same streets at similar times.

oh god, youre a philly phan?

mr. met wrote: oh god, youre a philly phan?

if you sign santana i am going to cry like a baby. rumor has it yer close with the other hernandez (bros, cute!), so i'm hopeful that means you'll give up on trying for an ace.

armchair_warrior wrote: i get screamed pork fried rice or sometimes wonton by kids in poor predominately black areas a lot, usually ignore them.

when i lived on new york ave, i would get kids bowing to me or saying "hello mr. chinese man!" my favorite was late one night on hampton or virginia pl some kid just said to me "chinese?" and i said "no, vietnamese" to which he responded "what the hell is that?" believe it or not, i also got razzed for looking like a chabadnik riding aroudn the wrong side of the parkway.

yea, ive heard we're close on santana. definitely the frontrunners.

we don't really need him, though. the NL east is ours.

I'll tell you what is wrong with them: They are racists, plain and simple.

No, it's racism. Most like likely learned behavior from their elders. Believe me, those kids know what they are saying is wrong and would certainly get bent out of shape if equivalent slurs against their race were made towards them. The more we accept this and say "kids will be kids", the more it will happen. The only way it will stop is if they, and if possible - their parents, are called on it every time.