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Entries by Keith Rushing from 06/2011

The Reasons Why So Many Black People Are in Prison Go Well Beyond Profiling

| Posted 06.23.2011 | Politics
Read More: African Americans, Prison, New York Police Department, Racial Profiling, Incarceration Rates, Politics News

Although Whites and African Americans use and sell drugs at about the same rates, Black men in 2003 were almost 12 times as likely to go to prison as White men.

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NYPD's Horrible Stop-and-Frisk Policy Harkens Back to Jim Crow Era

| Posted 06.28.2011 | New York
Read More: Racism, New York Police Department, African Americans, Racial Profiling, Jim Crow, Stop and Frisk, Nypd, Racial Discrimination, New York News

It's a shame that the New York Police Department continues its unconstitutional targeting of Black and Latino New Yorkers despite years of demands that this dehumanization end.

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