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Not the blog but they ran columns in The Sunday Times – just cancelled them last week. Sigh. It’s true they were having to “reach” for topics but it was a fun feature.
Rob that’s not the same kind of frisk as on the street where the cops stop a kid, make him lean over a car while they pat him down and empty his pocket, and arrest him if he has some reefer in his pocket. Much more likely to happen to a black kid on his way to school in Bed-Stuy than to a white kid on his way to school in Park Slope.
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you will have years of loving your beautiful baby boy without needing to worry about this bullshit
um ever see children of the corn, the exorcist, damien, chucky, firestarter, any random maury povich episode in the middle of the day, village of the damned, etc? sorry but sometimes children can be even MORE evil than teenagers!!! and when they are it’s even more severe!
Does anyone read the Freakanomics blog? I used to on a daily basis and they have some interesting articles, along with good follow-up and analysis in the comments.
That said, Gem, although I know this must be an extremely emotional time (not that I had my kid that way but almost had a breakdown during the last week before we met in China), you will have years of loving your beautiful baby boy without needing to worry about this bullshit. And you are raising him in a great place to raise a kid.
yeah the only added thing you need to worry about as a parent these days is sexting.. which in the grand scheme of things aint a big deal. no one under the age of 25 has any concept of privacy anyway.
Shit, I sent something with a link, maybe that’s why it didn’t post. Snappy, I feel for your brother, and Gem, I’m sure it’s on your mind too–very tough for the parent of a black kid, especially a boy. Very hard message, that the policeman is your friend/policeman is not necessarily your friend.
Speaking of which, this from the NY Times (won’t include the link this time):
February 22, 2011
Street Stops by the Police Hit a New High
By AL BAKER
New York City police officers last year stopped more people on the streets — to question, and sometimes frisk — than in any year since the Police Department began recording the number.
According to data provided by the police, officers made 600,601 street stops in 2010, about a 3.5 percent increase from the more than 580,000 stops the department logged in 2009, the previous recorded high. Seven percent of the stops last year led to an arrest, compared with 6 percent a year earlier.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly attributed the increase in stops to officers’ observing more suspicious behavior. “It’s situational,†he said. “Situations drive the use of that tactic. It depends on what conditions police officers find in the street.â€
Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, said the street stop number was “not so big,†considering that officers had 23 million contacts with civilians last year. It is also not surprising, he said, in a city where officers make 422,000 arrests a year and issue 2.5 million summonses — both of which require higher legal standards to carry out than do stops.
The number of street stops last year is the highest since 2002, when the department first had to record its annual tally. But Mr. Browne said “it’s fair to assume†that the annual number of stops was far higher in the 1980s and early ’90s, when there were more than 700,000 reported crimes each year, compared with fewer than 200,000 crimes last year.
Peter F. Vallone Jr., chairman of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, said that with a shrinking police force, the tactic is “the best way to get guns off our streets.†He commended officers for “using this practice even more effectively.â€
In July, Gov. David A. Paterson signed legislation prohibiting the police in New York City from electronically storing the names and addresses of people stopped on the streets but found to have done nothing wrong.
Not the blog but they ran columns in The Sunday Times – just cancelled them last week. Sigh. It’s true they were having to “reach” for topics but it was a fun feature.
Rob that’s not the same kind of frisk as on the street where the cops stop a kid, make him lean over a car while they pat him down and empty his pocket, and arrest him if he has some reefer in his pocket. Much more likely to happen to a black kid on his way to school in Bed-Stuy than to a white kid on his way to school in Park Slope.
quote:
you will have years of loving your beautiful baby boy without needing to worry about this bullshit
um ever see children of the corn, the exorcist, damien, chucky, firestarter, any random maury povich episode in the middle of the day, village of the damned, etc? sorry but sometimes children can be even MORE evil than teenagers!!! and when they are it’s even more severe!
*rob*
Does anyone read the Freakanomics blog? I used to on a daily basis and they have some interesting articles, along with good follow-up and analysis in the comments.
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No secret what color most of the friskees.
my bag was frisked THREE times at the SAME f’ing stop. and im the same color as the moonfaces. but i do see your point.
*rob*
That said, Gem, although I know this must be an extremely emotional time (not that I had my kid that way but almost had a breakdown during the last week before we met in China), you will have years of loving your beautiful baby boy without needing to worry about this bullshit. And you are raising him in a great place to raise a kid.
dh – Yeah, I liked the book as an entertaining read but thought it paid selective inattention to a lot of issues.
yeah the only added thing you need to worry about as a parent these days is sexting.. which in the grand scheme of things aint a big deal. no one under the age of 25 has any concept of privacy anyway.
*rob*
Shit, I sent something with a link, maybe that’s why it didn’t post. Snappy, I feel for your brother, and Gem, I’m sure it’s on your mind too–very tough for the parent of a black kid, especially a boy. Very hard message, that the policeman is your friend/policeman is not necessarily your friend.
Speaking of which, this from the NY Times (won’t include the link this time):
February 22, 2011
Street Stops by the Police Hit a New High
By AL BAKER
New York City police officers last year stopped more people on the streets — to question, and sometimes frisk — than in any year since the Police Department began recording the number.
According to data provided by the police, officers made 600,601 street stops in 2010, about a 3.5 percent increase from the more than 580,000 stops the department logged in 2009, the previous recorded high. Seven percent of the stops last year led to an arrest, compared with 6 percent a year earlier.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly attributed the increase in stops to officers’ observing more suspicious behavior. “It’s situational,†he said. “Situations drive the use of that tactic. It depends on what conditions police officers find in the street.â€
Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, said the street stop number was “not so big,†considering that officers had 23 million contacts with civilians last year. It is also not surprising, he said, in a city where officers make 422,000 arrests a year and issue 2.5 million summonses — both of which require higher legal standards to carry out than do stops.
The number of street stops last year is the highest since 2002, when the department first had to record its annual tally. But Mr. Browne said “it’s fair to assume†that the annual number of stops was far higher in the 1980s and early ’90s, when there were more than 700,000 reported crimes each year, compared with fewer than 200,000 crimes last year.
Peter F. Vallone Jr., chairman of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, said that with a shrinking police force, the tactic is “the best way to get guns off our streets.†He commended officers for “using this practice even more effectively.â€
In July, Gov. David A. Paterson signed legislation prohibiting the police in New York City from electronically storing the names and addresses of people stopped on the streets but found to have done nothing wrong.
No secret what color most of the friskees.