The Disproportionate Overrepresentation of Minority Youth in ...

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Q: You mean of physical harm or being accused of being a racist
A: Physical harm and being accused of being a racist. You drive by ...
about 12:00 at night. You’ll see more black people sitting in that alley on
that corner than you’ll ever probably see in your life, and they do not do a
thing about it. You’ll see these black people sitting there getting drunk,
getting in fights, doing cocaine right there on the street, and the cops’ll
just drive by and look away. They’re scared.
Q: An you’ve seen this
A: Oh yeah. I’ve had to by there before, every night, to go home.
Yeah, it depends, I’ve seen it in California and I’ve seen it here. There’s a
black guy calmly talking to a cop and he raises his hand for something and
the cop puts his face down in the hood. Stuff like that, that they wouldn’t
do to a normal person. Very few do, but there are some. I mean, you can’t
go through a department and pick out one because there aren’t that many.
Maybe a couple.
It is interesting to point out the wording in the above quote. The youth says,
“...that they wouldn’t do to a normal person.” One wonders if this youth views whites as
“normal” people and blacks as “abnormal”
Hispanics were asked, “Do you feel that the police are always picking on
Hispanics” Hispanics, as a whole, believe that, “Yes” they are picked on by the police.
The Native Americans were asked, “Do you feel that the police are always
picking on Indians” Their overall response to the question was “No.” There was one
Native American who did feel Indians were picked on. This quote states:
Respect
Yeah, they get arrested more, and if they try to fight them in jail, they
always get beat up.
The responses varied to the question, “Do you have a lot of respect for the police” It
seems blacks, in the self report, have less respect for the police than whites. Forty percent
of the blacks strongly disagree with the statement compared to only 28 percent of the