{"id":6789,"date":"2009-03-03T02:30:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T07:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:51:00","slug":"policing-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/03\/policing-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Policing the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people, especially men of color, report\u00a0being harassed by police officers.\u00a0 They often feel that police are not for them, as they are for some members of our society, but against them&#8230; making their lives\u00a0more risky, more dangeous, even deadly.\u00a0 Attesting to this, Jay at MontClair SocioBlog <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/stops-in-name-of-law.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted a graph<\/a> he put together based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/11\/nyregion\/11frisks.html?_r=2&amp;ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> about the NYPD.\u00a0 It shows that, sure enough, when the police stop people on the street in New York, it almost always results in&#8230; nothing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6790\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/00_nypd.jpg\" alt=\"00_nypd\" width=\"549\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/00_nypd.jpg 649w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/00_nypd-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/03\/on-racial-profiling\/\" target=\"_self\">this post<\/a> that shows, with data, that racial profiling doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people, especially men of color, report\u00a0being harassed by police officers.\u00a0 They often feel that police are not for them, as they are for some members of our society, but against them&#8230; making their lives\u00a0more risky, more dangeous, even deadly.\u00a0 Attesting to this, Jay at MontClair SocioBlog posted a graph he put together based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,8080],"class_list":["post-6789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-housingresidential-segregation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31367,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions\/31367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}