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Title: NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says it's hard to hire black cops because too many have criminal histories
Source: NY Daily News
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york ... bill-bratton-article-1.2252202
Published: Jun 9, 2015
Author: Tina Moore , Rocco Parascandola , Ginger
Post Date: 2015-06-10 09:18:09 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 1921
Comments: 8

The NYPD has a hard time hiring black men to become police officers because too many have criminal records, the city’s top cop said in an interview. 

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said it’s a challenge to find hirable blacks because so many African-American men have been arrested.

“We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton said in an interview published Tuesday by The Guardian, a British newspaper with a New York bureau.

Bratton put at least part of the blame on the NYPD’s use of the controversial tactic stop-and-frisk, according to The Guardian. He acknowledged the “unfortunate consequences (of) stop, question and frisk,” a policy that hit communities of color hardest.

But once the article went online — with the jarring headline “NYPD chief Bratton says hiring black officers is difficult: ‘So many have spent time in jail,’” — Bratton went ballistic.

“We’re asking, we’re not even asking we’re demanding, a retraction and a correction because the story was a total misrepresentation of the original story,” said the commissioner, referring to another story published Tuesday by The Guardian.

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“The original interview was done by one reporter and then they had a second reporter who took the first reporter’s story and totally misrepresented it in the second article,” Bratton told reporters.

The city’s top cop went on to double down on his statement that many candidates of color were wiped out by criminal histories.

Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News

'We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can't hire them,' Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in an interview.

“That’s well known. It’s an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That’s a reality. That’s not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk,” Bratton said.

He added that within black communities, some “15 to 20% of black males have some type of criminal history and that’s an issue of great concern in the black community.”

The Guardian did not respond to requests for comment.

A spokeswoman for Mayor de Blasio said he “is committed to a diverse police force, and he and the police commissioner are committed to recruiting officers that reflect New York City’s diversity.”

Even with the NYPD’s calls for a retraction, outrage started rolling in from black leaders and elected officials.

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“There are plenty of African-Americans who haven’t been to jail. It does seem a little insensitive to say that you can’t recruit because most of us are in jail. Where does he get that?” said Rochelle Bilal, vice chairwoman of the National Black Police Association.

Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the law firm that successfully challenged the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk in federal court, said Bratton’s words defied logic.

“It’s definitely within the purview of the NYPD to fix this problem ... Bratton has to deal with it and not throw up his hands and say, ‘We’re giving it the old college try.’ The NYPD needs as much aggressiveness in trying to find good qualified black candidates as it puts into trying to exclude them through stop-and-frisk and broken-windows policing,” said Warren.

The city’s public advocate, Letitia James, saw an opportunity to review policing policies.

“This is a teachable moment that affirms that broken windows policing destroys lives and opportunities,” James said in a statement. “We need to enact policies that promote diversity for our police force and city as a whole.”

NYPD'S BRATTON DOWNPLAYS CRIME RISE, STOP-AND-FRISK EFFICACY

Bratton hit back at his critics, saying he was just stating a well-known reality.

“ These are facts and I always deal with facts,” he said.

The NYPD discarded candidates who had felony convictions, he said. But many of the summonses that result from stop-and-frisk incidents aren’t considered during the hiring process — the main point that was misconstrued by the Guardian, Bratton said.

“The issue of trying to hire blacks is a national issue. Every police department in America is having a hard time hiring blacks,” he said.

Bratton (l.) and Mayor de Blasio attend a NYPD graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden in December. Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Bratton (l.) and Mayor de Blasio attend a NYPD graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden in December.

After several high-profile deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in Staten Island, Ferguson, Mo., North Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore, many police departments across the country have tried to boost minority recruitment.

Currently the NYPD has 34,631 cops, roughly 15% of whom are black. Its most recent graduating class, in January, had 891 candidates. About 10%, or 97, were black.

EXCLUSIVE: NYC STOP-AND-FRISK PLUNGES AS CRIME CLIMBS

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain and community advocate for better policing, said there was no doubt in his mind that stop-and-frisk did have an effect on NYPD hiring.

“Those stops where you were told to empty your pockets, and once the cops found marijuana, you’re now charged with a misdemeanor, and that happened very often in communities of color, as we know,” he said.

He pointed to other law enforcement agencies in the city with a higher representation of blacks, like the Health and Hospitals Corporation officers.

“If finding good African-American candidates is such a problem, then why are other city law enforcement agencies able to get them? It is the history of the NYPD to (have a diversity problem), and here is an opportunity for the commissioner to break with history,” said Adams.  (3 images)

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#1. To: cranky (#0)

“The issue of trying to hire blacks is a national issue. Every police department in America is having a hard time hiring blacks,” he said.

Why are the overlooking the most obvious reason that most blacks,like most whites,have no desire to become policemen/policewomen?

You can't hire people against their will.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-06-10   9:29:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: sneakypete (#1) (Edited)

Why are the overlooking the most obvious reason that most blacks,like most whites,have no desire to become policemen/policewomen?

I think that becoming a policeman is almost disreputable in black communities. I think there is far less support and more suspicion against black cops by black communities than you see with other minorities or among whites.

You saw some of this during the Ferguson episode when the governor put the black commander of the Missouri Highway Patrol in charge of policing in Ferguson.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-06-10   10:48:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: cranky (#0)

it's hard to hire black cops because too many have criminal histories

It's nearly impossible to hire blacks for anything because to many have been in jail, belong in jail, or belong back in Africa.

rlk  posted on  2015-06-10   10:51:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: TooConservative (#2)

"I think there is far less support and more suspicion against black cops by black communities"

Sure. They be Uncle Toms. They be actin' white.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-06-10   11:42:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: rlk (#3)

"it's hard to hire black cops because too many have criminal histories"

Private industry is saying, "Hey. Welcome to our world."

Criminal histories aside, how many black candidates have a high school diploma? Of those, how many can read their high school diploma?

What is frustrating is that blacks have 100% control over these things, yet they blame racism for their plight. Stay out of trouble, stay in school and learn something, and don't get pregnant.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-06-10   11:49:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: cranky (#0)

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says it's hard to hire black cops because too many have criminal histories.

And those who don't say: "Whatcha talkin' 'bout, man....you want me to work?"

Gatlin  posted on  2015-06-10   11:52:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: misterwhite (#4) (Edited)

Sure. They be Uncle Toms. They be actin' white.

You can see the problem. Sharpton and other race hustlers have made becoming a cop the act of an Uncle Tom. Like they've done with Clarence Thomas on the Court.

It is problematic politically, both for blacks and for the Dems. I saw an article today that I've been expecting to read for the last few years. It was only a matter of time before they realized how much they've been shafted by Obola and the Dems.

WaPo: Let down by Obama, some black voters ask: Is it even worth backing Clinton?

To dodge the usual copyright problems with WaPo, here is a Jammie blog on the article with extensive fair use quotes.

How’s That Hope and Change Working Out? “We got the president his job. But did he help us get any good jobs? I still need a raise”

Posted by on Jun 10, 2015 at 8:01 am

Hey, so Obama screwed you over. So vote for Grandma Clinton. That should do the trick.

During those two electric Novembers, the chance to elect a black president, and then keep him in office, seized Regenia Motley’s neighborhood.

Nightclubs were registering voters. Churches held fish fries after loading buses that ferried parishioners to the polls. A truck hoisted a big sign that said “Obama.” And residents waited in long lines at precincts across the community.

But as Motley and some friends sought shade recently under a mulberry tree and looked across the landscape of empty lots and abandoned houses that has persisted here, they wondered whether they would ever bother voting again.

“What was the point?” asked Motley, 23, a grocery store clerk. “We made history, but I don’t see change.”

Obviously it’s not Obama’s fault. Nothing ever is. But make sure you vote for Hillary Clinton out of blind obedience.

On Jacksonville’s north side and in other struggling urban neighborhoods across the country, where Barack Obama mobilized large numbers of new African American voters who were inspired partly by the emotional draw of his biography, high hopes have turned to frustration: Even a black president was unable to heal places still gripped by violence, drugs and joblessness.

The dynamic, made prominent in recent months after unrest in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., sets up a stark challenge for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner.

While supporting Obama became a cause for many here rather than a typical campaign, Clinton faces a higher bar in making a case that she, too, can be a transformative figure.

Oh yeah, a reclusive multimillionaire is going to be transformative alright. Can’t wait.

Yet as her allies prepare to register voters and expand the black electorate, her candidacy presents residents here with a question: If Obama’s presidency didn’t do more to help African Americans, then how could hers?

Dirty little secret, folks: It’s not.

“At least with Obama, he gave pride to our young men and was a good role model,” said Daniel “Happy Jack” Cobb Jr., 73, the owner of Happy Jack’s Grocery and Market on Jacksonville’s north side. “Hillary needs to prove to us that she’s genuine and really true. And I’m not even sure that would help. We’ve been snakebitten too many times before.”

Well, they do have a young senator in their own state running for president. Might want to consider him.

But now, as the Obama era draws to a close, that excitement has dimmed.

On the north side, gang violence and drug use have surged. In April, 33 Jacksonville residents were shot, including seven who were killed. A group of pastors held a news conference and declared the city a “war zone.”

For the friends who gathered recently to hang out in the shade of the mulberry tree, it will be hard to justify the effort of turning out and voting next year when so little has changed — and some things feel worse.

“We got the president his job,” Motley said. “But did he help us get any good jobs? I still need a raise.”

Weird how they got the president his job even though the GOP supposedly is trying to deny them the vote.

The conversation became heated. Another said he’d love to vote but could not because of his felony conviction. Another complained that she couldn’t get a raise in eight years.

“We all struggling,” said another. One man became so uncomfortable, he removed his T-shirt, wrapped it around his head and walked away. The shirt read “Obama ’08.”

Thanks, Obama!

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-06-10   12:06:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Gatlin, A K A Stone, nolu chan (#7)

WaPo fair use example above.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-06-10   12:17:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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