News Mar 28, 2018 at 8:37 am

Audit Finds Portland's Gang Patrol Officers Disproportionately Target African Americans

Alex Zielinski
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From the article : “most gang shootings in Portland [are] committed by African American gangs” and that these gangs mostly affected African American communities, PPB offered no data to back up that statement.

Really, Merc? You think the PPB needs to offer you data to make you believe that statement?
JTR on March 28, 2018 at 11:30 AM Report this
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Old Hitchens quote nicely describes how to deal with PPB's lack of data to justify profiling:

'That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.'

ET82 on April 3, 2018 at 10:56 PM Report this

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