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Snownel t1_jdic9e6 wrote

The article is really... "loosely" written from a statistical point of view so here's the short version:

>According to that audit, the racial breakdown of people against whom
police used force between 2018 and 2020 was 57% Black, 34% Hispanic and
7% white, with the rest unknown or other communities.

Paterson's 2020 Census shows 24.7%, 62.6%, and 22.9%, respectively. What I'd really like to see instead of the raw audit numbers is an analysis of how racially biased each department is by comparing the two. This can't be just a Paterson problem.

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TroyMcClure10 t1_jdigmt4 wrote

The Paterson PD has had something like 10 officers arrested over the last few years.

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Firelli00 t1_jdk2nnh wrote

There's white people in Paterson?

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Lost-Recording3890 t1_jdk73zy wrote

Majority of white people in Paterson are probably Latin American origin, but identify as white.

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falcon0159 t1_jdl4bbi wrote

How do the Middle Eastern people identify on the Census? Maybe they pick white?

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LemurCat04 t1_jdit4te wrote

BTW, Paterson is one of the agencies that’s in the current On Patrol Live (fka Live PD) line up.

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onlyme1984 t1_jdhwb0g wrote

Like they really needed to analyze data

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FartFragrance t1_jdhxv3k wrote

Just curious what race/color are the cops?

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love2Vax t1_jdk9gz6 wrote

What is interesting about this question is, that even black cops tend to show bias against black suspects. I'm saying this as a general trend from multiple studies.

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mjdlight t1_jdj45gu wrote

From a 2/2022 article...

"The Paterson Police Department has 29.5% white officers, while the census puts that portion of the population at 8.5%. Meanwhile, 51.1% of the police force are members of various Latino cultures, while the census says Paterson’s Hispanic residents make up 61% of the population."

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/paterson-press/2022/02/03/paterson-nj-police-department-racial-disparity/9315260002/

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AAcdmail t1_jdkja42 wrote

I know a couple youths from there yeah its true they say.

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