Sentences with phrase «more black officers»

Many would also like the cities to hire more black officers.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, Bennett released a statement saying a Las Vegas police officer pointed a gun at him and detained him «for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.»

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

An American police officer in plainclothes has shot dead a Black Christian drummer whose car had broken... More

Officers here are more likely to stop and search black folk.

The primary claim he makes in the first paragraph is that «Las Vegas police officers singled me out and pointed their guns at me for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio denounced some of the more extreme slogans of the Black Lives Matter movement in a radio conversation with an African - American NYPD officer today — even as he continued to praise the group as «necessary.»

More broadly, the push for grand jury reform began last year, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a New York City police officer in the choke hold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

Superintendent Runcie — who also happens to be black — says their viewpoint is simple: more funds for resource officers.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio denounced some of the more extreme slogans of the Black Lives Matter movement in a radio conversation with an African - American NYPD officer today — even as he continued to praise the group as «necessary.»

Black Westchester has been informed by a reliable source that inmate Michael Howard, who was already charged with attacking and braking Correction Officer Dwayne Boland's jaw has now injured three more officers.

The strained relationship between black New Yorkers and the police was never more acutely evident than last Monday after the Caribbean Day parade when officers mistreated and wrongfully arrested Council Member Jumaane Williams and Kristin Mark Foy, an aide to... Continue reading →

«This suggests that the higher rates of fatal police shootings of unarmed black victims are not merely a result of more interactions between police officers and black suspects,» said co-author Anita Knopov, a pre-doctoral fellow at BUSPH.

«The problem of police killings of unarmed black victims should not be viewed merely as a problem of flawed action on the part of individual police officers, but more as a consequence of the broader problem of structural racism,» said senior author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

He says that some people could come to similar conclusions based on the history of police violence — blacks shot and killed by officers are more likely to be unarmed than whites shot and killed by officers — but this study starts «at the beginning of the interaction.»

Even after controlling for driver age and gender; officer race; the crime rate and business density of the neighborhood; whether the stop resulted in a search, warning, citation, or arrest; and the severity of the offense (if there was one), more respectful language was used with white drivers than with black drivers, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Only more recently have researchers begun to surface the numbers of black girls who are subject to severe disciplinary measures in schools, including by school resource officers.

This pattern likewise falls disproportionately along racial lines: for example, Latino students are 1.4 times more likely than white students to attend a school with a law enforcement officer but not a school counselor (while Asian students are 1.3 times as likely and black students are 1.2 times as likely).

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

A study by Education Week found that school resource officers, who essentially function as law enforcement personnel, are more likely to be deployed on campuses with large numbers of black students.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer, Alex Stamos, took the opportunity during his speech at the recent Black... [Read more...]

Mullen talked with BookPage about the first black police officers, writing outside your race and more during his visit to the 2016 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»

Drivers in Black Mountain North Carolina who receive seven or more points on their driving record may be required to take a Black Mountain North Carolina Driver Improvement Clinic, either by a Black Mountain North Carolina court, or by a Black Mountain North Carolina DMV hearing officer who handles driver's licenses.