Sunday, August 14, 2016

RSN: The Ordinary Outrage of the Baltimore Police Report





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FOCUS: Jelani Cobb | The Ordinary Outrage of the Baltimore Police Report 
Riots erupted in Baltimore after Freddie Gray, a black resident of the city, died in police custody. (photo: Matt Roth/NYT) 
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker 
Cobb writes: "Between 2010 and 2015, there were three hundred thousand police stops, of which less than four per cent resulted in a citation or arrest. Forty-four per cent of those stops occurred in two small, mostly black neighborhoods, and ninety-five per cent of people who were stopped ten times or more were African-American." 
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