Tag: NYPD

  • Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides Salon 2015-01-02 Jim Sleeper Why diverse police forces can’t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment Nearly two decades before last month’s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black…

  • Wickham: Silence of NYC’s good cops widens divide USA Today 2014-12-30 DeWayne Wickham, Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Dean School of Journalism Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland When Mayor Bill de Blasio stepped to the podium Saturday to eulogize Rafael Ramos, one of two New York City cops killed by a black gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley,…

  • Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family? AlterNet 2014-12-30 Terrell Jermaine Starr, Senior Editor The cops’ fight with the city’s progressive mayor smacks of white supremacy. In September 1992, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops to storm City Hall to protest then-mayor David…