ACLU Finds Freedom of Movement Limited for Blacks in DC [in EVERY City Controlled by Elite White Liberals w/a Large Black Population, Cops Stop and Degrade Blacks in Grossly Disproportionate Numbers]
/From [HERE] New data on encounters with police in D.C. revealed serious racial disparities, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The data collected between January 2022 and December 2023 found that Black people accounted for more than 70% of the people stopped by police in the city.
Addtionally, a City Paper analysis of the department’s stop data found that while the number of police stops resulting in frisks (or pat downs) are relatively small compared to the number of overall stops, officers are much more likely to search Black people. More than 90 percent of frisks involve Black suspects.
“The main thing that we have found is that the number of stops conducted by the police of Black people in the District is grossly disproportionate to their representation in the population,” said ACLU of D.C. policy advocacy director Scarlett Aldebot.
According to the Census Bureau, Black people make up 43.5% of D.C.’s population. White residents make up just over 36% of the population, but, the ACLU said, that population accounted for just under 13% of people stopped by police.
“When we see this level of disproportionality that can impact trust in the police, and we’re not really seeing the benefit of these stops, we need to really ask ourselves if this practice is making us safer,” Aldebot said.
The report looked at the almost 137,000 stops reported by the police department during the two-year period.
Not all stops result in so-called stop-and-frisk searches, but those that did, according to the ACLU, did not result in many guns being taken off the streets. The report found in 2022, 0.9% of stops resulted in guns being recovered, and the result rose to 1.2% in 2023.
Aldebot said the perception of biased policing in the city also can result in situations where residents won’t report crimes or criminal activity.
The report called for an end to stop-and-frisk practices and for public safety approaches that the ACLU claims are “not biased or disproportionate, do not cause harm, adhere to constitutional requirements, and increase trust in government among the most vulnerable communities.” [REPORT]
Most black people live in metro areas. The U.S. metropolitan areas with the 30 largest African-American populations are the following:
New York, New York
Atlanta, Georgia
Chicago, Illinois
Washington, District of Columbia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Houston, Texas
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Miami, Florida
Detroit, Michigan
Los Angeles, California
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Charlotte, North Carolina
Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, Virginia
St. Louis, Missouri (MO-IL)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Orlando, Florida
Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida
Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia
Boston, Massachusetts
San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Jacksonville, Florida
Riverside-San Bernardino, California
Minneapolis-Saint Paul
San Francisco-Oakland, California
Columbus, Ohio
Birmingham, Alabama
Indianapolis, Indiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
With the exception of Tampa-St Petersburg and Jacksonville FLA, all the above metro areas can be described as cities controlled by elite white liberals. In nearly every metro area Black people are routinely stopped, searched, detained and degraded by police in grossly substantial numbers. In the above stated cities, liberal Democrats control nearly all levels and branches of government and control all local government agencies, such as police departments. Consequently, if democrats really wanted to protect the so-called rights of its loyal Black constituents- that is, controlling their own cops’ behavior in their relations with its Black and Latino residents, then the elite white liberal leadership could and would have done so at some point over the past 40-50 years. To trick the gullible black votary at election time, elite white liberals often pay lip service about police brutality and decarceration - in fact a few days ago the Washington Post, a newspaper owned by elite white liberals, implied that police unaccountability was part of their agenda, despite all evidence to the contrary;
DC
NYC
CHICAGO
BALTIMORE
BOSTON
NEWARK
RICHMOND
MEMPHIS
COLUMBUS
CLEVELAND
Black drivers are much more likely to be pulled over than whites [MORE]
Cleveland Police Stop and Search Black Drivers at Higher Rates Despite DOJ Oversight
CINCINNATI
CHARLOTTE
RALEIGH
ATLANTA
INDIANAPOLIS
NEW ORLEANS
90% of stop-and-frisk firearm searches by New Orleans Police targeted Black people
Black people were exposed to an annual average of 43.7 proactive stops per 100 000 population occurring in their neighborhood of residence, compared with 30.7 stops, on average, in neighborhoods where White people lived. [MORE]
ST. LOUIS
MINNESOTA
Although Blacks make up only 6% of the MIN population they are 27% of all arrests. [MORE]
LOS ANGELES
Report says 70% of Traffic Stops by LA County Cops on the 5 Freeway were of Latino Drivers
ACLU & Catalyst California Report Finds L.A. and Riverside Sheriff’s Departments Waste Millions on Traffic Stops [MORE]
OAKLAND
BERKELEY CA
SAN FRANCISCO
RIVERSIDE/SAN BERNADINO
HOUSTON
DALLAS
MIAMI
BIRMINGHAM
MILWAUKEE
PHOENIX
NOT RUN BY ELITE WHITE LIBERALS? Here, white liberals and their sleeping Tom believers may delude themselves that cities like Memphis, Baltimore, Atlanta and DC are not actually run by white liberals and may claim they are in fact run by Blacks themselves. However, whether a city is controlled by ‘elite white liberals’ has nothing to do with the number of elected black officials or appointed black straw boss authorities in a given jurisdiction. In reality, Black people in general function as “a powerless class” having no power independent of elite whites. In nearly all liberal jurisdictions where blacks reside, elite whites control and own all major resources (such as banks, local mainstream media, major real estate, ports, utilities, large corporations and businesses, all major industry, major non-profits, unions, hospitals, etc) and own most major real estate and anything else of substantial material value. Neely Fuller explains, ‘in a socio-material system dominated by wealthy, powerful racists, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by elite racists. In such places elite white liberals function as the major decision makers in regards to what happens or does not happen to non-white people, particularly Blacks and Latinos.’ Elite racists are their employers, landlords, creditors, land owners, supervisors, bosses and major decision-makers. Fuller states, ‘Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by elite racists. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many Black people prefer not to acknowledge.’ [MORE] Thus, in their direct or indirect relations with elite white liberals, most black people function as their employees, workers, consumers, helpers, servants, tenants, patients, clients and customers. Contrary to liberal whitenology, racists use the granfalloon of race to dominate and control Black people - hate and mean words have little to do with it; master-servant relations are the gravamen of the system of racism white supremacy - not mere bigotry, overt hate or affiliation with clown groups, such as the KKK or Nazis.
A FREE RANGE PRISON. Authorities and their media often mischaracterize police stops of Black drivers and Black citizens as ‘minor intrusions’ or temporary interferences with their freedom. For example, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg attacked a NYC court decision which ruled stop and frisk unconstitutional, by claiming, “stop and frisk is not racial profiling.” In reality, the pervasive use of authority to arbitrarily stop law abiding Black people against their volition terrorizes and degrades their humanity and “citizenship” and chills their inherent human right to freedom of movement.
Black scholars Naa Kwate and Shatema Threadcraft explain that unlawful stops of Black people lead to “Embodied stress, fear and trauma” because “the subject knows that any encounter may well end in death—and moreover, that the death may go unpunished.” The frequency of such “routine” stops ‘produces bodies that are harassed, stressed and resource deprived, if not altogether dead.’ Kwate and Threadcraft state, “Even those who are not stopped fear being stopped, fear death, and thus also find themselves in the grip of this form of necropower.” The omnipresent threat of being stopped for no reason by police is a form of “torture-lite” according to scholar Paul Butler. Here, the difference between adherent rights and inherent rights should be understood. FUNKTIONARY explains,
adherent rights – privileges disguised as so-called “rights” created by men via deceptive word-manipulation in written form called “symbolaeography,” and legal documents. 2) privileges granted by an apparent or putative authority at the expense of one's inherent or unalienable ‘rights.’ Also, “rights deriving from the corporate government (against itself) that can be liened against or taken away at any time by the creator or grantor of the bestowed right or benefit.”
inherent rights – unalienable and unassailable rights. Also, “All individual’s have unalienable rights. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. [MORE]
“rights” – useful fictions declared in order to make agents of another type of fiction (“government”) have to play along in their deadly theatrical (tragicomedy) game. 2) mere fictions, the contemplation of which leads only to a progressive social, personal, racial and jurisprudential separation from reality. Discussion and debates about “rights” merely evades the FAQ, i.e., the frequently avoided question of who is to enforce any “right” and who will benefit from the pretense. [MORE]
unalienable rights –You can't surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can't under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. [MORE]
Hans Buchheim explains, ‘The humanity of each person is the interior reference point of every natural or inherent right. We are all naturally endowed with rights - rights that we possess because we are human beings (regardless of whether we have earned them or are deemed worthy of them by a government authority) – these rights are not given or taken away. Said rights are necessary to human dignity and autonomy - among other things, these natural rights include the right of freedom of movement, the right to be free from detentions, seizures, searches and the right to be left the fuck alone.’
Pervasive, arbitrary stops function to “niggerize,” degrade humanity and humiliate Blacks in public, rendering them “unsafe, unprotected, subjected and subjugated to random violence” by government authority. The undeceiver Jeremy Locke points out that “slavery is not a concept of totality . . . The ultimate slavery is murder . . . Slavery is found both in the partial and complete destruction of freedom.” Prolific stops by cops everywhere a large number of Black people reside, inhibit their freedom of movement and function as a tool to keep Blacks confined to a physical, social and symbolic space. Thus, elites use arbitrary stops to help dominate Black people and control their movements by force. Such stops are a form of slavery. The result is a 2nd class citizenship for Blacks. Legal scholar Charles Epps observes, “police stops convey powerful messages about citizenship and equality. Across millions of stops, these experiences are translated into common stories about who is an equal member of a rule-governed society and who is subjected to arbitrary surveillance and inquiry.” FUNKTIONARY makes it plain, “People who are awake see cops as mercenary security guards that remind us daily, through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate State”
The above is part of mounting evidence that voting for liberals and supporting their causes has been a complete disaster for Blacks. In metro areas controlled by elite white liberals Black people’s so-called “rights” are turned on and off like light switches as cops routinely surveil, stop, detain and search their clothing, possessions, cars and generally interfere with their freedom of movement as they attempt to go about their daily lives. Additionally, in the same places, police have mauled, injured and put thousands of Black people into greater confinement and murdered hundreds with impunity.[MORE]
Elite liberals and their Black probots loudly and dogmatically claim that voting will solve most of their problems. However, the quality of Black citizenship stays low where the majority of Blacks live and it does so despite high turnout by the black votary. Dr. Frances Cress Welsing explained Black people are currently in a “losing streak that is centuries long.” According to the Urban League’s report, “State of Black America,” “Black people haven’t progressed since 1965” and “the Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life and quality of life in the US. That is, Black people occupy the bottom of nearly every statistical category of life. [MORE]. To racist suspect elite white liberals, Black people and their welfare are not the end of the electoral process but merely the means for winning. “It’s high time to cut the leash.”