MA Chiefs of Police December 2010 newsletter, contradicts the NECIR investigation claiming their is no evidence of racial profiling in MA.
What's disturbing about this article is The New England Center for investigative reporting claimed to do an "NECIR INVESTIGATION" into racial profiling and found no evidence. If they did a little more research they would have discovered that there are no records of racial profiling in MA and police departments are proud of it. The MA Chiefs of police December 2010 newsletter page 13 proudly lists as their number one accomplishment of 2010.
"A critical responsibility of a legislative agent is to monitor legislation filed by others, searching for proposals that are detrimental to our members or our profession. This year alone, with the help of many of you, we were able to prevent legislation:
1. Creating racial profiling data collection".
NECIR report:
Instead, the analysis by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting finds that the most common factor linking people who are arrested in Cambridge for disorderly conduct is that they were allegedly screaming or cursing in front of police.
Of the 392 adults arrested for disorderly conduct, 57 percent were white and 34 percent were black. That racial breakdown almost exactly mirrored the racial composition of the population that Cambridge police investigated for disorderly conduct, the NECIR analysis shows.
Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert C. Haas, who declined to comment on the Gates case, said that speech is never the sole basis for an arrest.
“You have a situation where you are trying to stop behavior, and entangled in that behavior you have people saying things,” he said. “It’s the behavior officers are trying to deal with and it’s the behavior that officers are trying to stop that they believe really creates social disharmony. They have an obligation to stop it.”
After reading the NECIR report it leaves many questions unanswered.
Does racial profiling exist in police departments, you be the judge.
The Police Commisioner in Cambridge states they are now the "social disharmony police" are you kidding me, do we live in Communist China?
Link MA Chiefs of Police newsletter 2010:
http://www.masschiefs.org/documents/December%202010%20Newsletter.pdf
NECIR link:
http://necir-bu.org/wp/the-pocantico-declaration-creating-a-nonprofit-investigative-news-network/investigations/disorderly-conduct/disorderly-conduct-necir/