This phrase, when spelled exactly like this, is the best thing on the internet.
The most effective crimes in NYC happen through Wall Street. Can’t stop and frisk people that could ruin your department finacially. Lower income people are so much easier for the police to harass. We all know who are the real criminals out there. You don’t see people coming from miles away occuppying the ghetto, trying to make a statement.
Inb4 nobody wants to be in the ghetto remark. Please
You’re just brushing off the real violent crimes committed by minorities in New York City. It’s not an anecdote, these are real crimes happening.
I’m black-hispanic.
Race traitor!
Those kinds of criminals are investigated by the SEC, FBI and random financial crime divisions within the NYPD. Street cops are trained to handle street crimes.
^^^I didn’t think it needed to be explained. Kinda hilarious it has to, though.
damn… you need to take this act on the road it’s so fucking hilarious.
The SEC, FBI or DoJ going after any major wall street institutions LOLOLOLOLOLOL
hell, the last NY AG that attempted to crack down on the big wall street institutions was “randomly” caught up in a prostitution that still haunts his political career to this day.
Agree 100%. I live in a really nice area as well, and I think the EXACT same thing. My brother put it best, “as a race, it’s unfortunate, but we [Black people] are just naturally suspicious”.
You’ve been reading too many conspiracy articles. Wall street companies and/or employees are constantly caught and punished for white collar crimes and violations. I’m sure that the system isn’t perfect but this idea that Wall Street works with impunity is just not true. It’s about as untrue as the claim that the NYPD racially profiles and that SQF is a tool to oppress minorities.
Today an NYPD investigation–the kind using things like warrants and detective work–confiscated 254 illegal guns.
That’s roughly the same number as is discovered in a quarter of a million stops under stop-and-frisk.
Did you also see how it was just by sheer luck and the stupidity of some rinky-dink rapper that led to that confiscation? Or did you want to purposefully leave that part out?
Nope, haven’t seen anything about how it started.
I feel you though; stop-and-frisk isn’t sheer luck, it’s systematic.
actually i have been following the news, and white collar prosecutions are even lower under obama than they were under bush. Beyond that the few who have been prosecuted thus far have primarily been people who committed crimes/screwed over other big-name investors. HSBC was caught laundering trillions of dollars for the drug cartels, paid a small fine without admitting guilt. It’s not some conspiracy theory to say that prosecutors and regulatory agencies overseeing wall street are either entirely toothless or captured agencies rotating employees with the businesses they are supposed to be regulating. constantly punished my ass.
The HSBC fine was more complicated than that. FYI, it the fine was $1.9b, which is tidbits compared to the supposed amount of $250billion they supposedly had helped drug cartels, warlords, terrorists, militaries in other countries, and others to launder over the course of a decade.
Yes, a decade of investigation, not stopping at any point before that to say, ‘that is too much!’.
It was in part because HSBC didn’t keep records.
The question was, did people within their organization purposefully not keep those records?
Was it bad policy and people were lazy?
Both?
No criminal charges were brought up. Many people wonder why not?
It was in part because the international communities’ banking regulations don’t make sense.
After a decade of investigation, they suddenly decide, “Now it’s time” and crack the whip. Why not nine years ago? Why no criminal charges for individuals? Why would a firm protect those responsible unless they made the corporation lots of money, much more than $1.9b? It doesn’t add up. If I was in charge of a company and my employees made my company lose significant money because of illegal activities, I’d do everything I could to show who did what and put the right people behind bars. But if I was in charge of a company and my employees made my company significant amounts of money through illegal activities that could barely be tracked and resulted in a huge net gain, I would be incentivized to ask them to try again!
Good summary for me.
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I should say the above article has a direct reference to this thread and the use of stop and frisk on people carrying weed or other illegal drugs.
Don’t be dense. You’re giving the cops credit for hard-work and using warrants when that’s not how they found these guns at all. They stumbled upon it while going for a drug sting. Pure happenstance. At least SQF deters people from carrying weapons in crime-ridden neighborhoods. But that’s fine, you can keep ignoring it. I’ve noticed on SRK that it’s much easier to ignore a fact that disputes your point than it is to accept or disprove it.
Here’s what bothers me about minorities and whites: When a black kid is killed by a white guy (no matter how much white he is so long as it’s linkable) the race is mentioned but when it’s reversed many media institutions don’t want to mention race at all.
I know when I worked at some newspapers they had rules on not mentioning race if the suspect is a minority. Why? Isn’t that germane to the story? The same goes for many large news organizations and it’s sickening. Two examples here and here. I had to go out of my way to find these in smaller newspapers and I shouldn’t have.
I just want someone to explain to me why this is okay. I never hear minorities complain about this favoritism (coddling, some would call it) when it really shouldn’t be happening in a respectable news organization whether it’s in print or television.
And for the kids who killed the Australian guy this week, the Twitter defenders were incredible. There were tweets saying (paraphrasing here) “Well, Trayvon got shot so this is okay.” and “How do you know that white guy wasn’t doing anything suspicious.” Is this what we’ve come to?
You have zero room to criticize those people at the moment.
Why? Because you say so?