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Recently we began our exploration behind the Blue Line of police brutality, specifically as it pertains to Black America. While the research compiled was horrifying, sadly it wasn’t surprising to a community that comes face to face with police abusing their authority on a daily basis.

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Yahoo News reports:

Police stops in New York City have climbed steadily to more than 685,000 last year from nearly 161,000 in 2003. Only 12 percent of those stopped were arrested or ticketed. More than 85 percent were Black or Hispanic, while they make up 51 percent of the city’s population.

A Reuters analysis of more than 3 million stops from 2006 through 2011 shows that by far the densest concentrations fell in areas of public housing, home to many of the city’s poorest families and where 90 percent of residents are Black or Hispanic. Although one would expect a heavy concentration of police stops in these densely populated areas, the stop rate is disproportionate: In 2011, police stopped people in these areas at a rate more than three times higher than elsewhere in the city, the analysis found.

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Criminal Attorney On Police Brutality: ‘Many Officers Are Thugs With Badges’  was originally published on wolbbaltimore.com