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anarcho-queer: NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:17:36 -0400

NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To Possess Drugs Or A Weapon Than Racial Minorities When Stopped, Yet 84% of Stop & Frisk Victims Are Black/Latino

During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.

White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.

It’s unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime. Considering one officer’s testimony that superiors explicitly directed him to target young black men, minorities are judged by a much more flexible definition of “reasonable suspicion.”

In general, stop-and-frisk has proven to be remarkably ineffective; nearly 89 percent of all stops result in no charges. The city has also had to settle a surging number of civil rights lawsuits against police to the tune of $22 million in one year.

75-year-old Pakistani man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham two weeks ago. Barely any media coverage

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:39:37 -0400

75-year-old Pakistani man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham two weeks ago. Barely any media coverage :

deafmuslimpunx:

thirstrani:

Detectives appeal for witnesses after Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed to death as he returned home from local mosque

But no one is going to talk about this, are they

Disgusting…

may the poor man rest in peace.

anarcho-queer: Palestinians Smash Down The Apartheid...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:04:55 -0400

anarcho-queer:

Palestinians Smash Down The Apartheid Wall!

Palestinians smashing down a section of the apartheid wall in the town of Abu Dis, Jerusalem.

Free Palestine!

Yo Region Rats*

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:03:25 -0400

I’ll be in town Friday, until as late as Monday night. If we don’t already have plans to hang, that should totally change.

*and Chicagoans too I guess

CPS Closings: Interactive Map with Affected Schools, Gang Lines - Old Town - DNAinfo.com Chicago

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:50:49 -0400

CPS Closings: Interactive Map with Affected Schools, Gang Lines - Old Town - DNAinfo.com Chicago:

southernish:

DNAinfo.com mapped the gang boundaries CPS students ~~could~~ will be forced to cross if when their schools close.

Their blood will be on your hands, Mayor Emmanuel.

"I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in…but my..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:40:27 -0400

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in…but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre, from Nausea (via no-vvolf)

"It all starts with the person who seems committed to win the current spirited competition as the..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:37:10 -0400

“It all starts with the person who seems committed to win the current spirited competition as the most loathsome person in American political life: Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The same Mayor overseeing the closing of fifty-four schools and six community mental health clinics under the justification of a “budgetary crisis” has announced that the city will be handing over more than $100 million to DePaul University for a new basketball arena. This is part of a mammoth redevelopment project on South Lakeshore Drive consisting of a convention center anchored by an arena for a non-descript basketball team that has gone 47-111 over the last five years. It’s also miles away from DePaul’s campus. These aren’t the actions of a mayor. They’re the actions of a mad king.”

- Rahm Emanuel’s Zombie Pigs vs. Chicago’s Angry Birds | The Nation (via sexartandpolitics)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:34:54 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 17:12:05 -0400

"The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while,..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:29 -0400

“The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

- Assata Shakur: An Autobiography (via no-vvolf)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:41:32 -0400

Shoutout to all the revolutionary people of color of today and yesterday:

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:50:20 -0400

sinidentidades:

jebiwonkenobi: When I was little I thought being an adult meant not having a bed time but I’ve come...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:48:53 -0400

jebiwonkenobi:

When I was little I thought being an adult meant not having a bed time but I’ve come to realize that it just means being in charge of my own bed time and it turns out that I am not equipped to handle that responsibility.

no-vvolf: let this be a reminder

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:44:27 -0400

no-vvolf:

let this be a reminder

Judging by my Tumblr, post in my ask what you think I'm like in real life

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:52 -0400

no-vvolf: i actually wish i was dating an anarcho-communist insurrectionist-nihilist. but they’re...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:54 -0400

no-vvolf:

i actually wish i was dating an anarcho-communist insurrectionist-nihilist. but they’re only the stuff of legend in these lands.

Watching people talk out of their ass is so much fun.

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:30:04 -0400

Watching people talk out of their ass is so much fun.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:43:48 -0400

mariavontraphouse: zhiingenjigeshki: clintisiceman: Gloria...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:25:13 -0400

mariavontraphouse:

zhiingenjigeshki:

clintisiceman:

Gloria Richardson pushes a national guard bayonet out of her face during a 1963 civil rights protest in Maryland.

“boy bye”

theuppitynegras: nezua: culturenautique: thepeoplesrecord: Pr...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:30:30 -0400

theuppitynegras:

nezua:

culturenautique:

thepeoplesrecord:

Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to Microsoft - A sampling of what US prisoners make & for whom
May 21, 2013

Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor.

The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the UnionCorrectional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.”

And Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as Nintendo Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup “entirely consistent with our mission statement.”

Texas inmates produce brooms and brushes, bedding and mattresses, toilets, sinks, showers, and bullwhips.

In Texas, prisoners make officers’ duty belts, handcuff cases, and prison-cell accessories. California convicts make gun containers, creepers (to peek under vehicles), and human-silhouette targets.

A stitch in time: California inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace “Made in Honduras” labels on garments with “Made in the usa.”

Open wide: At California’s prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures.

Constructive criticism: Prisoners in for burglary, battery, drug and gun charges, and escape helped build a Wal-Mart distribution center in Wisconsin in 2005, until community uproar halted the program. (Company policy says, “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart.”)

On call: Its inmate call centers are the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” Unicor boasts. In 1994, a contractor for gop congressional hopeful Jack Metcalf hired Washington state prisoners to call and remind voters he was pro-death penalty. Metcalf, who prevailed, said he never knew.

Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers’ uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have “produced missile cables (including those used on the Patriot missiles during the Gulf War)” and “wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.” In 1997, according to Prison Legal News, Boeing subcontractor MicroJet had prisoners cutting airplane components, paying $7 an hour for work that paid union wages of $30 on the outside.

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Hmmm….under these circumstances, having a large slave, oops I mean prison population is advantageous. What an “original” idea!

Damn, it is one thing if this was about rehabilitation and helping people gain skills and get jobs when they leave prison. Maybe pocket away some money in an account for use when a man or woman gets out of prison. At least you could argue some type of “win/win” scenario. Investment firms like Fidelity Investments fund companies and organizations that administrate these types of “programs. I do not think that is what is going on here.

It is not clear to me, at all, that rehab and helping people get back into the workforce is what is intended or going on. I have a hard time believing that inmates net any money or receive developmental assistance that translates to smoother re-entry into non-prison life. My mind is open and I will keep researching, but this just sounds like re-legalized slavery to me.

Yes, and the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution clearly spells out the intention. It’s absolutely disgusting how comfortable our society has become with this. It’s sickening.

I fucking hate this country