Blacks, Hispanics make up most of NYPD social-distancing summonses, arrests
By Julia Marsh, Rebecca Rosenberg and Natalie Musumeci
New York Post
May 8, 2020
The NYPD has issued nearly 400 summonses to people for violating social-distancing protocols or other emergency measures related to the coronavirus — with more than 80 percent of the violations given to blacks or Hispanics, according to data released Friday.
Of the people arrested for violating social-distance regulations, 92 percent were a minority, the NYPD added, according to reports.
Within a seven-week span, from March 16 through Tuesday, the Police Department has had more than 1 million contacts with the public in its “awareness and educational visits across the five boroughs,” the NYPD said.
During officers’ visits to places such as supermarkets, pharmacies, nail salons, bars, restaurants, parks and religious institutions, 374 summonses were issued “for acts likely to spread disease and to violate emergency measures” related to COVID-19, police said.
A total of 193 of the summonses, or 51.6 percent, were given to black New Yorkers, while 111, or about 30 percent, were doled out to Hispanics, the department data shows.
Seventeen social-gathering incidents accounted for 163 of the summonses issued citywide, according to the NYPD.
Out of the five boroughs, the most summonses were handed out in Brooklyn, with 206, followed by the Bronx, where 99 summonses were issued.
Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct in Brooklyn saw the most summonses given out at 16, a Brooklyn DA spokesman said.
Meanwhile, the NYPD has made 120 arrests of people violating social-distancing rules — and black people made up 68 percent of those, while 24 percent involved Hispanics, CBS reported.
According to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, 40 of those arrests were made in Brooklyn between March 17 and Monday. Of those arrested, 35 were black, four were Hispanic, and one was white.
Mayor Bill de Blasio commented on the police data at his daily press briefing Friday, saying, “We do not accept disparity, period.”
“When we see disparity, we’re going to address it,” said the mayor who downplayed the number of social distance-related summonses issued and arrests made as he noted there are 8.6 million city residents.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Sandinista-loving mayor ignores the fact that, just as the disparity of black prison inmates shows, blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crimes.
2 comments:
I suspect there is also a social-cultural component to this. I realize it is not NYC, but here in Stockton when I am driving around and I see an open garage door with music blaring and people hanging out the group is never white.
I was issued complaints weekly and sometimes daily depending on the level of urgency. These complaints were in different areas of the county. If I knew that I was responding to a complaint in the 5th Ward of Houston and I made an arrest then it was a pretty good bet that that arrestee was going to be black. If the complaint was in Memorial City and an arrest was made then it was a pretty good bet that the arrestee was going to be white. In Denver Harbor probably Hispanic. I didn't pick the locations of the complaints. Race has a lot to do with location of assignment. So when race baiting activists accuse cops of being racist by arrest history they need to look at the area of deployment. I would also receive more complaints in some areas than others. I would go to the address on the complaint and do my job.
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