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In NY, in the Brownsville, BK area, 93 of every 100 residents was stopped by the NYPD under its stop and frisk policy in 2009. In 2011, the NYPD has more black
by arkades 8y ago
In NY, in the Brownsville, BK area, 93 of every 100 residents was stopped by the NYPD under its stop and frisk policy in 2009. In 2011, the NYPD has more black male stop-and-frisks than there are black males living in NYC. That’s not a perception of disproportionate attention from the police, that’s an overbearing presence one must objectively acknowledge in ones life.
When -those- are your daily experiences with the police, the fact that non-violent, un-resisting black males are killed by the police without repercussion in your city (see: Eric Garner) is terrifying, even if the absolute risk of your being shot by an officer is low.
- leereeves 8y agoIs it relevant that Brownsville is one of Brooklyn's most dangerous neighborhoods?
- carterage 8y agoBrownsville has a reputation, yes. But Brownsville is an engineered pocket of Brooklyn, for sure. The reason Brownsville exists in this way, is because other parts of the city have created it the serve thusly. Spend enough time in NYC, and you gain an affinity for the equillibrium that fixtures on its map have acquired, in order to persist for decades and generations. Brownsville is a landlocked pocket of subway-accessible pavement, about an hour from Manhattan. Inside the footprint of the city limts, things exist as a matter of human will. The more powerful forces at the top tend to have stronger influnce over the sequence of events, than those at the bottom. What was going on with the walled city of kowloon? Was it there because people aspired to that, and it was a reflection of their intent?