Rick Dean
Registered
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/04/1...dateline10.html
As Gman has stated a time or two, negroes are a race of criminal primates.
If one hasn't committed a crime yet, they will eventually. All need to be profiled as much as possible.
TV show: Blacks ticketed more
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By Dan Horn
The Cincinnati Enquirer
C
ncinnati's racial problems returned to the national spotlight Friday night with a network television documentary that linked the city's police to racial profiling.
Dateline NBC broadcast a r
ep
ort that found police in Cincinnati were three times more likely to stop African-Americans for minor traffic violations than they were to stop whites.
Although the report found similar results in other cities, including Boston and D
enver, the show focused on racial tensions in Cincinnati and described the city as a "mirror" of race relations in America's cities.
The broadcast was aired almost three years to the day after the start of Cincinnati's 2001 riots, which began after police fatally shot Timothy Thomas on April 7 in Over-the-Rhine.
Thomas had been wanted for a series of minor traffic violations, such as those examined in the Dateline report.
City officials and civil rights activists greeted the broadcast with a mix of resignation and outrage. T
hey agreed, however, that the findings are not surprising because some of the same police data have been used in the past two years in academic studies and in a racial profiling lawsuit.
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ot;T
he finding
s are no different than what we found out for ourselves," the Rev. Damon Lynch III, pastor of New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church, said Friday. "What we want to be is a community of strong police-community relations, but we're not there yet."
But M
ayor Charlie Luken said the Dateline special relies too heavily on old data and film footage and does not reflect changes the city has made in the past few years. He said a U.S. Department of Justice investigation and a collaborative agreement that resolved a federal racial profiling lawsuit have changed the way Cincinnati police do their jobs.
"We've done more than any other city in America to improve our police department," Luken said. "This is just another national media outlet trying to make Ci
ncinnati look bad, and I don't think it's fair at all."
Dateline reporters said they spent 14 months on the story and examined more than 4 million traffic stops and tick
ets, inc
luding about 100,0
00 from Cincinnati.
Most of those tickets were for non-moving violations such as expired licenses and failure to use seat belts. The report concluded that the nature of those stops - and the higher rate of stops for African-Americans - suggested police may use minor infractions as a pretense to
stop blacks.
A city-sponsored study on traffic stops released last year found black motorists were 36 percent more likely to be stopped by police than white drivers. But the researchers who produced the study were more cautious in their analysis than Dateline, noting that the findings are only "circumstantial evidence" of a problem.
The broadcast included video and interviews from 2002 with police Officer Ronald Dammert, who is shown searching an African-American man af
ter the officer concluded he looked suspicious.
Later, when the man tries to file a complaint at the police station, Dammert warns him he could be charged with filing a false
report.
"You want me to
take drugs off the street, this is how I'm going to do it," Dammert told Dateline.
As Gman has stated a time or two, negroes are a race of criminal primates.
If one hasn't committed a crime yet, they will eventually. All need to be profiled as much as possible.
TV show: Blacks ticketed more
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Dan Horn
The Cincinnati Enquirer
C
ncinnati's racial problems returned to the national spotlight Friday night with a network television documentary that linked the city's police to racial profiling.
Dateline NBC broadcast a r
ep
ort that found police in Cincinnati were three times more likely to stop African-Americans for minor traffic violations than they were to stop whites.
Although the report found similar results in other cities, including Boston and D
enver, the show focused on racial tensions in Cincinnati and described the city as a "mirror" of race relations in America's cities.
The broadcast was aired almost three years to the day after the start of Cincinnati's 2001 riots, which began after police fatally shot Timothy Thomas on April 7 in Over-the-Rhine.
Thomas had been wanted for a series of minor traffic violations, such as those examined in the Dateline report.
City officials and civil rights activists greeted the broadcast with a mix of resignation and outrage. T
hey agreed, however, that the findings are not surprising because some of the same police data have been used in the past two years in academic studies and in a racial profiling lawsuit.
&qu
ot;T
he finding
s are no different than what we found out for ourselves," the Rev. Damon Lynch III, pastor of New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church, said Friday. "What we want to be is a community of strong police-community relations, but we're not there yet."
But M
ayor Charlie Luken said the Dateline special relies too heavily on old data and film footage and does not reflect changes the city has made in the past few years. He said a U.S. Department of Justice investigation and a collaborative agreement that resolved a federal racial profiling lawsuit have changed the way Cincinnati police do their jobs.
"We've done more than any other city in America to improve our police department," Luken said. "This is just another national media outlet trying to make Ci
ncinnati look bad, and I don't think it's fair at all."
Dateline reporters said they spent 14 months on the story and examined more than 4 million traffic stops and tick
ets, inc
luding about 100,0
00 from Cincinnati.
Most of those tickets were for non-moving violations such as expired licenses and failure to use seat belts. The report concluded that the nature of those stops - and the higher rate of stops for African-Americans - suggested police may use minor infractions as a pretense to
stop blacks.
A city-sponsored study on traffic stops released last year found black motorists were 36 percent more likely to be stopped by police than white drivers. But the researchers who produced the study were more cautious in their analysis than Dateline, noting that the findings are only "circumstantial evidence" of a problem.
The broadcast included video and interviews from 2002 with police Officer Ronald Dammert, who is shown searching an African-American man af
ter the officer concluded he looked suspicious.
Later, when the man tries to file a complaint at the police station, Dammert warns him he could be charged with filing a false
report.
"You want me to
take drugs off the street, this is how I'm going to do it," Dammert told Dateline.