Times, June 29:
Every time he says "disproportionate", which is a disproportionate amount of the time, he skips its second syllable, which makes me crazy. Also, the problem with illegal racial profiling is that there are reasons for its being illegal, not that it isn't being done thoroughly enough. But most of all, I don't know where the mayor went to school (obviously I could find out in about ten seconds), but he needs a little math and/or logic refresher himself, as we see in the
Times, July 2:
“They just keep saying, ‘Oh, it’s a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group,’ ” [Mayor Bloomberg] said dismissively of the practice’s critics. “That may be, but it’s not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder. In that case, incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.”
He added: “It’s exactly the reverse of what they say. I don’t know where they went to school, but they didn’t take a math course. Or a logic course.”
Every time he says "disproportionate", which is a disproportionate amount of the time, he skips its second syllable, which makes me crazy. Also, the problem with illegal racial profiling is that there are reasons for its being illegal, not that it isn't being done thoroughly enough. But most of all, I don't know where the mayor went to school (obviously I could find out in about ten seconds), but he needs a little math and/or logic refresher himself, as we see in the
Times, July 2:
Mr. Bloomberg has often credited stop-and-frisk with bringing the murder rate to an all-time low. But if crime and street stops were strongly related, the murder rate would have gone up last year, when stops went down by about 20 percent.
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