Driving while black

A new report from Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy & Research has found that in the majority-white municipality of Bloomfield, New Jersey, nearly 80 percent of traffic tickets are issued to African American and Latino drivers.

The report also found that most tickets were issued to non-resident minority drivers passing through town, suggesting a "de facto border patrol" policing policy is in effect.

The Bloomfield Police Department — which has begun collecting data on the race of drivers in traffic stops as of January 2016 — rejects the report's findings.

VICE News reports on Seton Hall's methodology and on the experience of minority drivers in Bloomfield.

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Read the report, "Racial Profiling Report: Bloomfield Police and Bloomfield Municipal Court” - http://bit.ly/20vowHc

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It's a duel effort in regard to Bloomfield's intentions. Not only do these tickets generate revenue, they are also meant to harass Newark residents entering their leafy suburb.
I had an ex who lived in a suburb right across the Passaic River from Newark. They kept a police car parked next to the entrance of the town. Steady pulling cars over coming from Newark.

Ive been fortunate while driving thus far. Walking on the other hand..

Had my doors snatched open with guns drawn on me. They saw me driving, bust a uturn. They forsure thought they had a criminal.

Got plenty of experiences from this

Have 8 points on my license for dwb.

It absolutely sucks. Everyday I see ppl do **** that they should be pulled over for and I get low key heated that I haven't done anything wrong except be black.

**** a cop and **** this system that only cares about money.

Weirdest thing that happened to me was when I got pulled over for the very first time, the cop said he thought I was someone else. just gave him my info and he said thanks and said have a good day.

I got pulled over in Hoboken about to get ni the tunnel to NYC. Dude was beyond an *******, didn't believe I was from Oklahoma, didn't believe my PT Cruiser was a rental (even took my contract/receipt back to his car with him when he called me in). Dude made me sit outside the car on the curb like a criminal while he ran my **** in some uppity looking neighborhood while people passed by walking their dogs and **** looking at me with the smh face, then he came back and made me get in the car and is about to let me go, then came back again and took my ID and made me get out of the car so he could run my stuff just one more time because there must have been some mistake apparently , then after like 30 more minutes of my time wasted tells me get in the car and keep my hands out the window, just throws my ID in the window at me and drives off without saying anything else.

Not black but this **** is very real. **** the police.

Good thing ninja takes the train

gamble said:

Good thing ninja takes the train

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this made me 

gamble said:

Good thing ninja takes the train

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@ninjahood  Since you believe systemic racism is a fantasy constructed by the democrats to get the black vote, can you share some of your insight on this video?

Oh yea. In Cypress, TX, a suburb of Houston.

My homeboy was smoking a cig and a state trooper just because he seen a cherry.

Funny thing about it, all of us had warrants, but he couldnt take us in because he didnt have a real reason to pull us over in the first place.

I'll chime in now after others have shared.


Growing up in NY, I've been profiled and unlawfully pulled over on numerous occasions while driving through predominantly black or hispanic neighborhoods. Now I'm not black but I've been mistaken for hispanic by tons of people. Most of my friends are hispanic or black so I'd usually have black or hispanic passengers.


Cops have previously searched my vehicle w/o consent, assaulted me for no good reason, and ticketed me for no good reason.



I mean I've had cops pull me over and come straight away to my window and ask "alright, where's the weed" or "where's the gun" when there was none present. I've literally had to stand there and watch as detectives and at least 10 other officers went through my car for an entire hour only to find absolutely nothing.


I can definitely understand that feeling the gentlemen in the video were feeling getting pulled over because I lived it. It IS unnerving, even when you've done absolutely nothing wrong.



This prison industrial complex we live in, where these police officers hold so much legislative influence as part of a lobby group, they're keeping predatory and harmful laws and policies in place to keep their numbers and funding up. Fact is if we focused on rehabilitation instead of incarceration in this nation, stopping crime instead of artificially creating it when none is present, we'd have less prisons and officers because we don't really need them. Cops are now using advanced analytics to keep track of crime patterns and demographics but the numbers are skewed because so many cops are giving people bogus tickets and bring them in on BS charges.


It doesn't just stop at giving people bogus, trumped up charges and tickets, or mandatory court fines. If you look at civil forfeiture laws in this nation, police departments are seizing people's property to "pad" their already exorbitant budgets.



Are these so-called public servants policing to keep us safe? Or are they policing profit? Because in my opinion, it's the latter that's the primary objective and the former that's just a byproduct. While cops are spending so much time busting people's chops over NONSENSE in these neighborhoods, they're doing very little to curb the day to day violence.

Tr1ll said:

Oh yea. In Cypress, TX, a suburb of Houston.

My homeboy was smoking a cig and a state trooper just because he seen a cherry.

Funny thing about it, all of us had warrants, but he couldnt take us in because he didnt have a real reason to pull us over in the first place.

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cypress....i don't go around those parts.

pearland is just as bad. 

sugar land gets a bad rep too but i've seen the police over there show mad love to folks when they really shouldn't have on numerous occasions tbh. 

i seen a dude smack a bouncer than swing and spit at the police and they didn't even tase him.  they threatened to tase him like 5 times and just got like 3 dudes and restrained him. 

japejapejape said:

cypress....i don't go around those parts.
pearland is just as bad. 
sugar land gets a bad rep too but i've seen the police over there show mad love to folks when they really shouldn't have on numerous occasions tbh. 


i seen a dude smack a bouncer than swing and spit at the police and they didn't even tase him.  they threatened to tase him like 5 times and just got like 3 dudes and restrained him. 

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I thought Pearland and Sugarland were nice Houston suburbs for young first-time homeowners with families.

Sugarland was on HGTV a couple of days ago, nice young black couple a personal trainer and a teacher bought a house for like 140, an old cottage style. Like dude said, it looked like a nice suburb just far enough away from Houston.

SneakerHeathen said:

japejapejape said:

cypress....i don't go around those parts.
pearland is just as bad. 
sugar land gets a bad rep too but i've seen the police over there show mad love to folks when they really shouldn't have on numerous occasions tbh. 


i seen a dude smack a bouncer than swing and spit at the police and they didn't even tase him.  they threatened to tase him like 5 times and just got like 3 dudes and restrained him. 

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I thought Pearland and Sugarland were nice Houston suburbs for young first-time homeowners with families.

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Lol Exactly

The report also found that most tickets were issued to non-resident minority drivers passing through town, suggesting a "de facto border patrol" policing policy is in effect.

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This is a well known bs cop tactic. If you're a minority driving anywhere with plates from out of state you can expect to randomly get pulled over for "failure to signal" or some other made up garbage. They're hoping to come up on someone moving drugs but most of the time they end up just harassing good people.

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Lol Exactly

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ha sugarland is great imo.  lots of people out there flourishing. 

pearland everyone i know gets pulled over.  they don't necessarily give out tickets like crazy but it seems they do a lot of fishing.