{"id":17714,"date":"2013-05-07T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=17714"},"modified":"2013-05-07T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:09:49","slug":"ray-kelly-by-the-departments-count-african-americans-are-being-understopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/05\/ray-kelly-by-the-departments-count-african-americans-are-being-understopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kelly: By the Department\u2019s Count, African-Americans are being \u201cunderstopped\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/raykelly.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17715\" alt=\"raykelly\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/raykelly.jpg?resize=490%2C275\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">BY<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/users\/azi-paybarah\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">AZI PAYBARAH<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bloomberg said NYPD critics are unfairly compare the number of black and Latino men stopped to the number of black and Latino men in the general population, whereas they should be comparing the numbers of stops to the descriptions of suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Kelly, in his interview, said that if you use that methodology, &#8220;African-Americans are being understopped.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A year ago, Kelly went even further,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pK0CyhZ7P0\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">telling reporters<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">people in &#8220;communities of color&#8221; actually &#8220;want more&#8221; stop-and-frisks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That kind of rhetoric will effectively require a response from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is the only Democratic mayoral candidate who wants Kelly to stay on as commissioner and also wants the department to make fewer stops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Yesterday, after she took credit for a recent reduction in the number of stop-and-frisks,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/christine_to_bloomberg_frisk_you_OOmOqdFCVGdiDygIxZuULL?utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=Local&amp;utm_source=feedly\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Quinn avoided<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">answering a reporter&#8217;s question yesterday about whether she would continue that reduction as mayor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/politics\/2013\/05\/8529626\/ray-kelly-departments-count-african-americans-are-being-understoppe\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0AZI PAYBARAH Bloomberg said NYPD critics are unfairly compare the number of black and Latino men stopped to the number of black and Latino men..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,84,97],"tags":[197,357,227,345],"class_list":["post-17714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discrimination","category-statements","category-us-news","tag-imperialism","tag-racism","tag-racist-oppression","tag-reactionary-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/raykelly.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}