An ACLU lawsuit uncovered police data indicating that while 73 percent of suspects pulled over on I-95 between 1995 and 1997 were black, black suspects were no more likely to actually have drugs or illegal weapons in their cars than white suspects.
A lawsuit uncovered that 73% of suspects pulled over on I-95 were black who no more likely to have drugs or weapons than white suspects.
When racial profiling is used, officers end up wasting their limited time on innocent suspects.
Police time is wasted when they use racial profiling to try and bust potential suspects who end up being innocent.
A 2005 report by the Missouri attorney general is testimony to the ineffectiveness of racial profiling. White drivers, pulled over and searched on the basis of suspicious behavior, were found to have drugs or other illegal material 24% of the time. Black drivers, pulled over or searched in a manner that reflected a pattern of racial profiling, were found to have drugs or other illegal material 19% of the time.
A 2005 report shows that white drivers who were pulled over and searched because of suspicious behavior were in possession of drugs 24% of the time and the black drivers were only found with contraband 19% of the time, less than the percentage of white drivers
Several petitions have been made to create stricter guidelines for police to follow, one includes adding front-facing cameras to helmets, as a way to combat police brutality.
There has been several suggestions to make stricter rules on police procedure including helmet cameras
Statistics also show that although minorities are more likely to be searched on probable cause, chances of them being found carrying a weapon or drug paraphernalia is lower.
It is shown in stats that minorities who are searched on probable cause are less likely to be in possession of drugs or weapons are lower.
With slogans such as “No Snitching” and “Kill a Cop” that reflect the mistrust and harbored hatred towards authority figures.
Harsh slogans have been made due to the hatred African-Americans have toward police that reflect their feeling about cops.
because their relationship had suffered greatly from the harsh treatment during routing stop-and-frisks without cause or explanation
The relationship between African-Americans and police has been destroyed because of being treated cruelly by police and not being told why they are being stopped.
Another study by Epp and colleagues found that African-Americans reported way more disrespectful behavior from police officers than white Americans did, and that they consequently didn’t feel that the police was there to protect them.
A study finds that African-Americans have reported disrespectful behavior from police than white Americans and African-Americans feel that the police are not there to protect them
NYPD stopped 2.4 million people between 2009 and 2014, of which 150.000 people (6%) were arrested. 16% of these arrests were never prosecuted, and another 10% were dismissed. Only one in fifty (0.1% of all stops) led to a conviction for possession of a weapon, and again only one in fifty (0.1% of all stops) led to a conviction for a crime of violence.
NYPD have stopped 2.4 million people between 2009-2014 but only 0.1% of all the stops have led to a conviction for weapons and only 0.1% of all the stops have led to conviction of violent crimes.
a finding that matches NYPD stats that found 89% of people subjected to stop-and-frisks last year were innocent of any wrongdoing.
A finding in NYPD stats is 89% of the people who have been stopped-and-frisked were completely innocent of any illegal activities.
The Vera study surveyed 500 men and women ages 18 to 25 in five “highly patrolled neighborhoods” — Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York in Brooklyn; Jamaica, Queens; East Harlem, and the South Bronx — who said they had been stopped at least once by cops. Of those surveyed, 46% said cops had used physical force on them, and 29% said they were never given a reason for why they were stopped
In the Vera study, 46% of the 500 men and women surveyed said the cops handled them with force and 29% said they were even given knowledge of why they were stopped.
For every additional time someone was stopped, that person was 8% less likely to report a violent crime, the researchers found
Researchers found that every time someone is stopped there is an 8% decrease in the likeliness of that person reporting a crime.
many young adults won’t go to cops to report violent crimes — even when they are the ones victimized.
Racial profiling has made police so untrustworthy that victims of violent crimes don't want to report the crimes to the police.
many parents reported restricting the actions of their children to minimize the risk of experiences of profiling.
Parents have become strict on teens because they don't want their kids involved in the profiling and go to lengths to prevent it.
In some cases people accept the negative stereotypes that are being applied to their group as true. In other words, they come to see themselves as inferior.
Racial profiling has led to people accepting the stereotypes they have been labeled to and bring themselves down.
Unfortunately, some individuals’ feelings of mistrust of law enforcement and the justice system has resulted in a feeling of not wanting to go to the police with a problem or not cooperating with the police.
Mistrust in police has caused many to not want to report anything to police when there's a problem or cooperate with the police.
racial profiling seriously erodes public confidence in these institutions
Racial profiling can destroy the trust in the law institution when people feel like they can not trust law officials.
Mistrust can be engendered by personal experiences, witnessing an incident of profiling, knowing someone who has experienced profiling or simply due to the widespread perception that profiling exists in society.
Not trusting the law institution stems from knowing people who have been victims, personal incidents of being profiled, and just knowing that racial profiling is something going on in society.
Because the mind is prone to distorting or rejecting scientific information in favour of more intuitive beliefs, simply transmitting the facts will not necessarily persuade people of the safety, or benefits, of GMOs, especially if people have been subjected to emotive, anti-GMO propaganda.
the mind is meant to reject anything that don't belong.
. However, DNA is DNA, whatever its source. The impact of disgust explains why people feel more averse towards GM food than other GM applications, such as GM medicine.
different DNA has different reaction to the GM product.
In the paper, we identify several intuitions that may affect people’s perception of GMOs.
many people are affected by GMOs.
Slaughterhouse cameras might seem unfair to the operators. The images might still appeal to emotion and prompt visceral revulsion. Fair enough. But we are not going to decide how we should treat animals through cold reason alone, and certainly not if their treatment is invisible.
we are not going to change the way we treat our animals because of how other people emotions or thoughts.
Slaughterhouses and confined-feeding operations can be dangerous places. Although the industry surely exaggerates the risk, guerrilla actions are not the safest or best way to spur reflection on how we treat animals.
the slaughterhouse is a dangerous place to work but that should mean that the safety of animals are not in good hands.
The most humane way of slaughtering an animal, or dealing with a sick one, may look pretty horrible. But so does open-heart surgery.
killing animals looks really bad but surgery's also looks bad too.
With intensive care, the death rate for hemolytic uremic syndrome is 3%-5%.
Children's who are under five years old die from those diseases because there immune system is weak and not fully developed.
E. coli is a type of fecal coliform bacteria commonly found in the intestines of animals and humans. E. coli is short for Escherichia coli.
E.coli is a bacteria that is found in animals and human, human eat animals which is why its found in humans as well.
E. coli O157:H7 was first recognized as a cause of illness during an outbreak in 1982 traced to contaminated hamburgers. Since then, most infections are believed to have come from eating undercooked ground beef.
E.colie was first found in meat before found in another substance or thing.
Lean finely textured beef is safe
When did anyone cared about what was being devoured . People eat to eat. No one checks what goes into his or her system unless you are a paranoid human individual.