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Published 9 years ago by wondaROY with 1 Comments
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Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown

For the second consecutive week, New York City police have virtually ceased writing tickets and arresting people for many nonviolent crimes, on the order of a 90 percent drop from a year earlier. After perceived slights by Mayor Bill de Blasio, civil protests against police brutality, and the murder of two officers by a deranged gunman, the New York Police Department is fighting back by not doing its job. Or rather, police appear to be using...

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  • drunkenninja (edited 9 years ago)
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    To many of us from these communities, the past two weeks have amounted to a vacation from fear, surveillance and punishment. Maybe this is what it feels like to not be prejudged and seen as suspicious law breakers. Maybe this is a small taste of what it feels like to be white.

    This statement made hair on my arms raise. It's shocking how much prejudice there is.

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