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05/25/2009: "State study shows minority youths put in custody more often than whites"
The most common charges on which minority juveniles are arrested are misdemeanors like shoplifting, graffiti, school fights and trespassing, where police have discretion not to make arrests, said Mishi Faruqui, director of the Youth Justice Program for the Children’s Defense Fund-NY. "It's very much about police practices," she said.
"I'm sure there's no formal policy by police in New York City that says detain minority youths," Greene said. The city police department has policies to make arrests for all felonies and more serious misdemeanors, she said, though acknowledging there might be personal instances where biases play into decisions.
Data show minority children statewide are arrested almost twice as often as whites, are six times likelier to be detained awaiting trial and are five times likelier to be confined to custody afterward, according to New York’s Division of Criminal Justice Services.
[ As usual there is an attempt to blame the higher "minority" arrests as being due to police being racist. But really the fact that arresting the youths for these particular misdemeanors is at police discretion can be shown to imply that the police are in fact being overly LENIENT on these non-whites. This is proved by the fact that the racial gap in arrest rates is greater for violent crimes, in which police have almost no discretion over whether to make an arrest. ]
http://www.dailygazette.net/standard_try/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=SCH/2009/05/22&ID=Ar01602&Section=Local_News