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Erasing the "Thin Blue Line".(police fear being called racist)
Often accused of racism and frequently facing federal probes into their conduct, police across the nation are pulling out of minority neighborhoods.
In major cities across the nation, criminals are winning the war for the streets -- not because they are better armed or better organized than the police, but because the police have simply withdrawn from the battlefield. They have done so not out of cowardice or indifference, but because it has become all but impossible to enforce the law in predominantly black neighborhoods without incurring charges of "racism."
"I hear the same story from officers all across the country," reports James Carnell, a police ...
- MIAMI POLICE OFFICER ACQUITTED.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 29, 1993 700+ words
...BOOTH - Washington Post William Lozano, the suspended police officer whose killing of two young black men ignited major rioting...criminal trial. In Overtown, one of Miami's poorest black neighborhoods, where Lozano shot Clement Anthony Lloyd on Jan. 16...
- LESSONS LEARNED REFORMS ARE PROCEEDING DESPITE FAILURE TO CONVICT EX-POLICE...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 8, 2004 700+ words
...time in the trial of Jeremy Morse, a former Inglewood police officer, his attorney, John Barnett, said that no full jury...the gang and murder violence that continues to rack many black neighborhoods and the glorification of the thug lifestyle by many young...
- S&L TO SPEND $11M TO SETTLE REDLINING CASE THRIFT, SUBSIDIARY, ALLEGEDLY FAILED...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 23, 1994 700+ words
...Monday to invest $11 million in black neighborhoods to settle unprecedented federal...offices or advertising its services in black neighborhoods. All previous lending discrimination...aggressively sought business in black neighborhoods, the government said. It opened...
- Retail runaround: with few shopping choices close to home, residents of...
- Magazine article from: The Chicago Reporter Kelly, Kimbriell November 1, 2005 700+ words
...according to the analysis. Some black neighborhoods are home to far fewer retailers...from their homes. It also means black neighborhoods lose out on billions of dollars...times more apparel retailers than black neighborhoods. * There are three times more major...
- Black neighborhoods urged to consider U.S. landmark status
- Newspaper article from: Bay State Banner Yawu Miller June 23, 1994 700+ words
Yawu Miller Bay State Banner 06-23-1994 Black neighborhoods urged to consider U.S. landmark status. Yawu...historic preservation business." Most CDCs in black neighborhoods are already involved in some form of historic preservation...
- Michigan political leaders organize a rally and protest march against offensive...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 5, 1988 700+ words
...billboards and outdoor advertising of alcohol and tobacco in black neighborhoods. The rally will begin at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at...Tinsley-Williams said the proliferation of billboards in black neighborhoods are environmental pollutants which would not be permitted...
- Atlanta-Area Upper Income Blacks Thrive in Majority-Black Neighborhoods.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 25, 2002 700+ words
...well-heeled African-Americans are living large. The latest U.S. Census shows clusters of such majority-black neighborhoods around the nation where annual household income is $150,000 or more. In Atlanta, the wealthiest of those...
- FLYNN URGES JACKSON TO PAY VISIT TO THE CITY'S BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Frank Phillips, Globe Staff June 8, 1989 700+ words
Mayor Flynn yesterday appealed to Rev. Jesse Jackson to include a visit to black neighborhoods when the civil rights leader arrives in Boston this weekend to lead an antidrug march and address a rally downtown. According...
Source: HighBeam Research, Erasing the "Thin Blue Line".(police fear being called racist)