BLACK TEENS PROFILED BY NYPD TRANSIT COPS

This is not work-related, but is worth sharing. An NYPD Transit police captain recently ordered his officers to stop ALL BLACK TEENS at a Brooklyn subway station. This was in response to several robberies at the train station. The captain made the command twice. According to the New York Post (October 9th):

“The cops were told to question the [black] teens and fill out “250’s” – forms that the department uses to track down suspects and link them to crimes.”

Stopping all black teens would certainly seem to prove a case of racial profiling. A civil rights lawyer has argued that the NYPD Transit police are essentially making a “black teen database.”

Source: www.nypost.com (“Racial Profile Uproar,” October 9, 2006)