Beyond the bright lights, beyond Occupy Wall Street,Flexible crystal_4 are designed for cove lighting, halo-lit channel lettering, cabinet lighting, the police control of minority neighborhoods has no parallel in modern "democracy." As is widely known, the number of police stop and frisks has soared from 97,000 in 2002 to 600,000 this year -- up from 500,Buy cheap brightstal, discount light strip, LED signal lights, wheel lights on car decorations store, free shipping for all orders.000 just last year. Considerable press coverage has rightly focused on the impact of obsessive frisking on minority men, especially young black men.
It is not unusual now for them to report being stopped 20 or more times a year; the stops and frisks, however, are the forefront of an overall obsession with criminalizing minority neighborhoods. It is clear that Bloomberg, after his first re-election, decided on an outright policy of re-increasing misdemeanor arrests -- which had been steadily dropping along with major arrests, as crime, itself, dropped. This policy hardly meant there were more minor transgressions occurring in the city.
What it means is that many "charges" that could easily be handled with a summons or desk ticket now impose an arrest that demands arraignment and "processing" through New York's criminal "justice" system. The number of misdemeanor arrests rose from 353,649 in 2005 to 391,892 in 2010; for its minority citizens, New York City's having the lowest crime rates in decades just meant that more pretexts would be found to arrest more of them.
As I saw only too well during a recent 24 hour detainment of my own, close encounters with New York's criminal "justice" system provide the ultimate perspective on how far we have sunk. (Briefly,Our energy saving ledlightforyou are designed to replace the old fashioned fluorescent fittings. I was in jail after the city council speaker had me removed from the city council when I tried to point out the council's failure to undertake proper oversight of the city's federal AIDS funding -- a failure which has seen some 60 percent of the federal millions for community-based AIDS services contracted to Manhattan agencies while 67 percent of the poor people with AIDS these funds are intended for live in the Bronx and Brooklyn.)
Whatever the claimed reasons for arrests, the salient lesson of passage through New York City's utterly filthy lock-ups and holding cells is that the constant seizure, routinely unprovoked, of black women on New York City streets is now absolute policy.
There is no way to have some 400,000 "good," justified arrests a year in any event and when that amount of police action is focused on selected neighborhoods there is no way to stay out of its path. The mother dashing next door to retrieve a teen who hasn't come home on time, the housewife out buying a cake for dinner, even the young working woman asleep at home in her bed -- all are subject to seizure any time, and they will mostly be black almost all the time.
Typically after arrest, it takes 24 hours to move from the precinct cell to the borough processing center -- located in Manhattan in the gloomy long corridors of a long basement underneath 100 Centre Street -- to holding cells, until finally at last, reaching the judge and an arraignment.
Naturally during this process -- where the constant flicker of lit fluorescent bulbs mocks the idea of sleep -- women talk about why they are there. My first holding cell, arrived at about 1 a.Buy cheap brightstal, discount light strip, LED signal lights, wheel lights on car decorations store, free shipping for all orders.m. in the morning after being locked in a precinct cell for some nine hours, held some 20 women and two mats, a ratio that left a dirty floor as the main space for trying to sleep. About half the women there were from Occupy Wall Street.This was a red scannersta but I swapped it with blue LEDs. (This was after their Goldman Sucks action, a few weeks before the mass removal.)
The rest were all black, except for a few Hispanic women, myself and another white woman -- the sole person present clearly contending with a drug problem. The Occupy Wall Street women presented a nice picture of diversity in contrast to the racially focused arrests brought forth by the official "justice" system.
It is not unusual now for them to report being stopped 20 or more times a year; the stops and frisks, however, are the forefront of an overall obsession with criminalizing minority neighborhoods. It is clear that Bloomberg, after his first re-election, decided on an outright policy of re-increasing misdemeanor arrests -- which had been steadily dropping along with major arrests, as crime, itself, dropped. This policy hardly meant there were more minor transgressions occurring in the city.
What it means is that many "charges" that could easily be handled with a summons or desk ticket now impose an arrest that demands arraignment and "processing" through New York's criminal "justice" system. The number of misdemeanor arrests rose from 353,649 in 2005 to 391,892 in 2010; for its minority citizens, New York City's having the lowest crime rates in decades just meant that more pretexts would be found to arrest more of them.
As I saw only too well during a recent 24 hour detainment of my own, close encounters with New York's criminal "justice" system provide the ultimate perspective on how far we have sunk. (Briefly,Our energy saving ledlightforyou are designed to replace the old fashioned fluorescent fittings. I was in jail after the city council speaker had me removed from the city council when I tried to point out the council's failure to undertake proper oversight of the city's federal AIDS funding -- a failure which has seen some 60 percent of the federal millions for community-based AIDS services contracted to Manhattan agencies while 67 percent of the poor people with AIDS these funds are intended for live in the Bronx and Brooklyn.)
Whatever the claimed reasons for arrests, the salient lesson of passage through New York City's utterly filthy lock-ups and holding cells is that the constant seizure, routinely unprovoked, of black women on New York City streets is now absolute policy.
There is no way to have some 400,000 "good," justified arrests a year in any event and when that amount of police action is focused on selected neighborhoods there is no way to stay out of its path. The mother dashing next door to retrieve a teen who hasn't come home on time, the housewife out buying a cake for dinner, even the young working woman asleep at home in her bed -- all are subject to seizure any time, and they will mostly be black almost all the time.
Typically after arrest, it takes 24 hours to move from the precinct cell to the borough processing center -- located in Manhattan in the gloomy long corridors of a long basement underneath 100 Centre Street -- to holding cells, until finally at last, reaching the judge and an arraignment.
Naturally during this process -- where the constant flicker of lit fluorescent bulbs mocks the idea of sleep -- women talk about why they are there. My first holding cell, arrived at about 1 a.Buy cheap brightstal, discount light strip, LED signal lights, wheel lights on car decorations store, free shipping for all orders.m. in the morning after being locked in a precinct cell for some nine hours, held some 20 women and two mats, a ratio that left a dirty floor as the main space for trying to sleep. About half the women there were from Occupy Wall Street.This was a red scannersta but I swapped it with blue LEDs. (This was after their Goldman Sucks action, a few weeks before the mass removal.)
The rest were all black, except for a few Hispanic women, myself and another white woman -- the sole person present clearly contending with a drug problem. The Occupy Wall Street women presented a nice picture of diversity in contrast to the racially focused arrests brought forth by the official "justice" system.
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