New York City’s siege on its Black residents and children provides a perfect example of how police brutality is used to provide new urbanites with cheap housing through quotas. Beginning at least 15 years ago, NYPD terrorized mostly Blacks (54-57%), where the Black population was continuously decreasing.[34] Between 2003 and 2012, NYPD targeted Harlem’s and Central Brooklyn’s Black populations. The number of stop and frisks of residents for “suspicious” behavior drastically increased, and peaked in January 2012.[35] In January 2012 NYPD performed over 15,000 stops per week.[36] Most persons stopped were Black and innocent. In 2003, 87% of persons stopped were innocent, 54% were Black, 31% were Latino, 12% were white, and 55% between the ages of 14-24.[37]
This trend of targeting Blacks continues until today. In 2017 first quarter, 57% of the stops were Black persons.[38] Mid-2012 saw an extreme drop in the number of stop and frisk encounters but the percentage of Blacks stopped remained the same, 54-57%.[39] The increase and drop in the number of stops coincides with the removal of Blacks from Harlem and Brooklyn and the transition period from a majority Black Harlem to the current majority white Harlem. By 2010, Harlem was majority white.[40]
Therefore NYPD was and is increasing pressure on an ever-shrinking Black population while whites poured into the newly vacated areas. If this is not the police relocating Blacks for white encroachment I don’t know what is. The black population of the Bronx may be under siege now by NYPD as Brooklyn has already become too expensive.[41] .
San Francisco Police Department has also been under scrutiny for its police brutality and urban development’s role in SFPD’s brutality.[42] Interestingly New York and California rank as two of the safest states for a cop to work- so it’s not about protecting the police.[43] LAPD- ‘nough said…
Essays on Modern Jim Crow and Black Relocation From the Urban Cores; Inglewood, CA is Great with Blacks 