Police data show strong differences in practice social distancing races in New York

On Friday, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) issued six weeks worth of data worth for connecting social distancing with the application, in March by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo available people stay indoors and avoid gathering in large groups. The publication comes amid growing criticism of racial differences and control police checks Cuomo and just a day after Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez social distancing dates of arrest for her congregation published. Both sets of data show that minorities are affected to a much greater extent by police checks throughout the crown pandemic. Read more: Experts Say NYPD Police Union should enforce the social distance rules not COVID amide-19 According to the NYPD, 374 evokes “for violation of the emergency procedures and does them responsible for common disease “he was questioned by police on March 16 between the hand and can sue the fifth is a ticket that is typically issued by a police officer for a court appearance someone to violate a law. Of these 374 summons they were distributed 304 black people and Hispanics. Related information confirmed by the Brooklyn DA charge that 40 persons from March 17 to May 4 for not following the social distancing measures were arrested. 35 of these people were black, four of them were Spanish and was white. DA Gonzalez said that his office allegations of excessive force Rate in Brooklyn accidents arrest, adding that the arrest should be a last resort. “Simply put, we can not at this from the police pandemic. Instead, we need people with the knowledge and hold security capabilities,” Gonzalez said in a statement to give. According to the New York Times, the New York Police Department has made at least 120 arrests for social distancing between 16 and May 5 in March as a whole in New York City. Of these arrests, arrested on 68% of respondents were blacks and 24% were Hispanic. These numbers have grown to become a point of criticism for the police and the mounting mayor’s office. Police reform activists, community supports and even the New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA NYC) said that the police officers never social distancing be performed. Read more: police, sheriffs offices in the United States struggling with COVID-19 the impact on public safety and its New York Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the role of social distancing application system NYPD during a conference print Thursday after about doubt the fact that there are comparable stop-and-Frisk had to stop the practice of police by someone and seek weapons or other illegal items that affect disproportionately the blacks and Hispanic men during its height. “What happened to stop and Frisk was an overwhelming systematic, strategy, unconstitutional, a new problem is much bigger than any other created thing, purported to solve,” de Blasio said. “This is the furthest away from those. This is facing a pandemic.” Following the release of catch data from Brooklyn, wrote on Twitter that the races “disparities”, of course, did not reflect the great thing by the police in New York. But, “We have better things to do, and we will,” he wrote. “This disparity, do not know how, I do not accept,” he continued de Blasio during a news conference Friday. “I want to see every community fair deal, but I want a specific approach, which is that we have really clear to follow these rules.” De Blasio Friday also announced that, in response to “the consequent overcrowding” in parks throughout the city would be a limit on the number of persons admitted, and that “the additional application” would be seen in this way.
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