I used the word racist, and not any other kind of words like "minority community" for a reason.

I think the NYPD overall is much less racist than it was in the 8o's when it was all white Irish guys.

It's probably mostly a semantic difference we are getting into here, where I use the term racist much more literally than you do. But I think it's an important semantic difference.

For example, they don't much stop and frisk people with black skin who are among the shoppers on Upper Madison Avenue looking checking out Louboutins, Italian lingerie and snacking on $50 salami..Now I've read enough stories that would suggest that some of the sales clerks and taxi drivers in that hood are still racist. But I don't think the cops are. They don't ask Bill Cosby what he's doing standing in front of the door to his $20 million townhouse just off Madison. They probably all know he lives there. I know for a fact that they treat all the employees at the Cameroon consulate in the same nabe with almost too much respect, even though they have the darkest skin one could have. I think it's because they speak French, but who knows, maybe it's because they pay them off.

I am sticking to it: I think the NYPD has become less racist.

Yes, they target "minority communities," waht they do is they target "minority communities" that are high crime communities. This does not equal racism on their part. If they had a bunch of poor white trash skinheads living segregated in poor council flat neighborhoods like in England, I bet they would target all the kids that in that hood that looked like those skinheads. This is not racism

Did you ever think that when you use the term "minority community" as if it is something to be proud of, that it is giving a blessing to the idea of segregation? It strikes me that way. I'm a staunch believer in integration of all kinds.being good for mankind. So the pride of "minority communities" sort of sticks in my craw. Especially when the results of segregation into minority communities ends up in a bunch of people self-reinforcing generaional failure and high crime.

As I suggested on another thread, if there wasn't segregation of one race of poor people like in places like Ferguson, there'd be less targeting of people by skin color.. It's about segregation, when you segregate yourselves into one community, people are going to make generalizations.

Goes without saying that I don't think police brutality is a solution to the problem. It's self-defeating, actually. But always promoting minority communities as if they are something good, that I think is self-defeating too. Even when it's like, Russian Jews from the Soviet Union or Bengalis and not high crime. It's makes for very closed minds on the inside and people making generalizations from the outside, including police.

In mixed neighborhoods, brutal cops don't even know what skin color to target. They get all confused and like, pick on 76-year-old Hispanic men. Segregation, including self-segregation, promoting "minority communities" as if they are something good, that's at the heart of the problem here.

When there is law enforcement, with people being invested with great power over others, there is always going to be abuse. That's something that can't totally be erased. But this targeting of "minority communities," well if they were fewer of them in very bad shape, it would go away. They would then target "poor, crime ridden neighborhoods" no matter the color of the skin.