Racism in the New York City police is not surprising. What's surprising is that this man managed to not only try to address it internally, but bring a class-action suit, without being dissappeared.
I am chalking this up to increased societial awareness, spread of information (despite also spread of mis-information) and younger next generations less indoctrinated by decades of established authoritarian propaganda. Economic and Social change progressed through generations, though it's not as fast many would like, but at least it is innevital. I am hoping this is a sign that the tides are turning, though it has come at great cost to those fewer decades when this kind of knowledge was less widespread, that the powers that be are finding it increasingly difficult to keep "dissappearing", "silencing" whistlblowers and those that can potentially talk as we are in the midst of a *CLASS WAR* and increased awareness....though they will keep trying on occasion to silence critique. - workers unionizing - increased social and economic activism - calls for criminal justice and law enforcement reforms - anti-war movements and less desire for endless wars ( I believe this is working because the United States has had to rely more on private forces for boots on the ground in Ukraine, but I feel dismayed by the push to go to war with Iran - on behalf of oil corporations) - costs of living and attention on corporate greed. etc.. I have over recent years and convinced the root to all the Economic and Social strife is Capitalism and its concentration of wealth and power at the expense of people and society.
Protect this man at all cost. There’s still time. I remember some years ago. There was a cop in a Midwest town suing his captain. He was still working and ended up dying in the line of duty. Before he could go to trial. I remember thinking. Why is he working? This was deliberate.
So you have come to that conclusion…… How? When it’s always a Black person not brown there is no such thing as that, but how when it’s always someone Black harassed beaten falsely arrested murdered if race has nothing to do with it then why not the Chinese mafia or the Mexican mafia why aren’t they going thru the same things! Like the brother said these race soldiers will say right out their mouth that they can and will arrest someone who is not black for the same crimes that racism that is at the core of all of this! Why does all race groups hate Black American when we have done nothing to any of them not their ancestors nothing, but we are the ones that’s hated! Now poverty plays a part yes to keep Black Americans and Blacks all over the globe in a state of poverty so all other race groups can rise on our backs either for free or for a cheap cost all together! Thanks for sharing and listening! There is only one certain group in America that can change this but they won’t because just the thought of Black people being treated equally is enough to allow these things to happen to them and leave these race soldiers and racist laws on the books! As far as Black on Black crime goes there is no such thing as that because if it were dateline 20/20 and so on would be named something else hell they have an entire dedicated to a certain killing each other but it’s not called wight on wight crime and it’s funny how it’s always pointed out that my people kill each other but the Mexicans kill each other at a higher rate them Black Americans or in Brazil I could go around the world and point out all the atrocities that are being committed and no one calls that group in group crime! When with all that my people have endured on this planet at the hands of all race groups we are only really 60-70 years free 1964! No matter how a certain group act like what was done and still being done to us was so long ago it wasn’t my grandad been thru it my grandmothers mother was a slave and yes we great grands knew her so when one says you never even met a slave I say lies a lot of us alive today met their great grand parents! Let me ask you this if my great grand mother was a slaves and my grand grandmother raised my grand mother she only knew how to raise another slave and then my grand mother raises my mother which my grand mother only knows what she was taught so she raised another slave and so on! Now the question things that were done in the past were to affect when? Also last question when was the first year that police safety was first spoken of? Just a simple way to show you how laws that we have on the books stem from racism and are racist!
@@madreese69I remember the one LAPD cop whistleblower that had the mysterious accident at the police training facility...just before he was to appear in court...hmmm!!! He was definitely un-alived from the inside.
Rampant racism inside every police department is only shocking if you haven't studied US history. Police departments have always been dominated by racists.
I mean yes and no the first police weren’t racist or at least it wasn’t relevant there was no black people mining coal in West Virginia but the police were started to put down strikes from the miners it’s not always about race bud it’s always about poor vs rich
Dont hold ur breath. The people pretending to 'fight' for us refuse to see that trying to bargin with narcassistic psychopathic bigots DOES NOT WORK AT ALL EVER.
There was a documentary on the NYPD 12 on Hulu. It detailed how their lives were made a living hell just for trying to do the right thing and blow the whistle on the department's quota system I believe.
I had a police officer write me a ticket for an infraction I did not make. When I asked him why He did that? He told me “I have a quota” They tell you the truth. When you have no power.
@@wiseguy01along with the LAPD, they are the other most notorious racist police force in the nation, including the corruption. The NYPD is also bad when it comes corruption as well.
That's why ex military who engaged in combat and experienced horrendous trauma shouldn't be allowed to police American citizens. They have too many unresolved issues do to their military service, that render them a danger and a liability to the citizens at hand. They tend to act like they are still in a war zone and that's extremely dangerous. 😎🎭✌️
Very few but don't blame this on us veterans. Your ppl are the biggest culprits of keeping racism alive in this country. Please don't try to pass blame. Racism in this country was started by who? That's who is to blame for all of this.
Good for him. The more light that is shown on these garbage policies, the better. I visited NYC about 12 years ago and was driving through Harlem. I was shocked to the core after witnessing a ‘stop and frisk’. A young black man or maybe a teen was walking down the street when suddenly 3 cop cars pulled up, he was violently thrown against a wall and was frisked. They found nothing, left him without speaking a word and drove away. No explanation, no apology, no asking if he was okay. The young person looked shell shocked. All this took place in the time we were waiting at a red light. The inhumane way they treated him is something that I will never, ever forget. I hope that victim is okay. I can’t imagine being him and ever walking down the street without feeling PTSD. To know that this targeting of black and brown people is still happening is absolutely horrible.
My gf lives in NYC and that's something I can't help but worry about. My consolation is that she is on the lighter skin side and a small woman. Which are gross consolations to have.
Really interesting what he said about a more diverse police force not necessarily being anti racist. Minorities can still contribute to racism, whether due to individual prejudices, biases, or simply from contributing to a system steeped in racism. Diversity is necessary, it's a good step, it's not enough on its own to resolve racism, especially when minorities lack clout within the institutions for whatever reason.
Most definitely!!! Same deal in security. I got out because other black officers were trying to make me think the same way they think and harrass and treat other black people differently from everyone else. I would not and could not conform. It's the culture of policing that is the problem. And just like his experience when the sergeant was telling me to stop black people it was blatant. He was black himself, telling me some bs like that. I knew there was no point in trying to go over his head. I quit.
For whatever reason... This is why we have no friends. You just pointed out the racism within the department and still couldn't say racism is the reason for the lack of institutional power within the department. Wow.
On the other end criminals get let out easier, like the migrants attacking cops, and detectives were pressed to quit. Feels like cops are treated like Derek Chauvin until proven not guilty. Regarding Nikki, people will get her name out faster that way. They love low hanging fruit. Similar to Whoopi Goldberg that people get uptight about.
Racism was baked into policing from the very beginning. There is a cultural aspect that just isn't addressed. Thanks for the guts to do something about it.
Great work by Edwin Raymond, he could've looked the other way for the sake of his career but he did the right thing, and continues to do so. I only hope that this time something will actually be DONE about the NYPD. Eric Adams will do everything he can to protect the NYPD.
@@TheLittleNoobThatCould As a native New Yorker who has lived right outside of NYC, my first thought was "this is not shocking at all". If only there was a way to change the system. Getting rid of corrupt, punitive Mayor Eric Adams would be start.
The government tries to cover up racism in police departments by making the police force more diverse. It's like the Klan putting on suits instead of Klan robes.
I left the police department, and I can tell you that " driving while black" is 100% a real thing. This is one of the reasons I left and changed carriers.
Why is he so surprised that they have no problem lying under oath? The SCUS has stated at least once and I believe twice that they are free to lie to suspects, so lying in court is just the next logical step
He didn’t know before joining but soon realize it happens. Many people still don’t realize they have no problem lying under oath. UNTILL IT HAPPEN TO THEM.
I can't imagine what this gentlemen went through, as a near and dear friend of mine was merely a dispatcher for the college division of our Metropolis police, and even that position with her anti-policing sentiment led to her constantly being threatened, harassed, blackmailed, and drove her to problems with drinking. The only reason she took the job was so she could afford tuition for her master's degree because they offered a steep discount since it was associated with the college. The harassment started when she secured a position on the union board because she was constantly pushing for disarming measures, Reformation, etcetera. She really truly thought that she could be a force for good on the inside. However, day in and day out she would watch the police refuse to do their jobs unless it was fun or would make them look like a cool action hero, sexually harass other employees and fellow officers, regularly bully and threaten and intimidate she and her family, and it just became too much. There is no changing this mess from the inside. You either fall in line immediately, live long enough to see yourself become the villain, or burn out. Those are the options.
the system does not want change (unless said change benefits the system...)...it's only because the system has become SO comfortable with its own racism that superiors had the confidence to say the things they did, and thankfully some o' that was recorded...
trying to be a whistleblower in a modern police force and _then getting put in a psych ward_ is definitely some sort of nightmare, but i guess the best way to avoid that situation is simply not to become a cop 😂😂
God bless this man for exposing the truth that many of us have known for decades. If we hired men of Integrity like this, we might actually have a effective NYPD
Just remember NY is in the NORTH! Racism is in the fabric of this country. NYPD has different policies depending on the community. For instance, in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYPD doesn't police that community the same as they do in Bed-Sty. Heavy handed in Black/Brown Community and look the other way in more "desired" communities. I've lived the heavy handed police policies of NYPD. This young man is speaking FACTS!!!
Copperheads existed during the Civil War - people with Southern Confederate sympathies in the North. However, many white Southerners also moved north with black folks during the post-Civil War era. But yes, Northern whites are also racist.
@Iloveswedes I'm a transplant from Norfolk, Va to NY when I was 7. So I'm NYer with southern hospitality, who have seen racism on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Southerners are more overt and Notherners are more covert, but since Donald J Drumpf, that has changed.
It’s the culture. The most enlightening information I came across was learning that the police came out of rounding up newly freed slaves under the guise of the vagrancy act
You don’t need a “ whistleblower” to expose racism in the NYPD. When my father came to this country from Jamaica in 1957, he went to the local precinct to get an application. They threaten to arrest him. He found out that you either had to be Italian, Irish or Eastern European, to expect a position. He thought he would be a good fit because he was a police officer in Jamaica. Anyway, he went into real estate and made his first million.
I find his courage and tenacity incredible. I witnessed similar mafia styled paradigms in the military and that's been my reflection on cronieism in corporate culture and structures ever sense. There's always this image that the organization is doing it's best to do the right thing, but most organizations are doing everything in their power to save their own power and skins and protect the other like minded individuals, while chastising and reprimanding anyone outside of their ideation. The theme continues everywhere I go, whether the military, a company, or even academia. When it comes to racism in America, and the people chosen to protect us, this is how it maintains, and this is how it remains systemic. The only way out is to fire everyone involved with keeping the power structure, and developing a culture that better reflects the values of the community they serve. As long as the wrong culture and cronieism maintains, it will never be defeated, and everyone that does something to fight it will only find their lives and livelihood harmed. So, he's incredible to fight this the way he has, and I commend and respect him.
What prevented him from researching and seeing this for what it was before getting into it? He probably knew all about the deeply entrenched racism of the police department but it felt he could work with it, play along and manipulate the system for his own agenda and when he hit the glass ceiling they set for him it suddenly became a reportable crime. I’m so sick of these types of people pretending that they were freedom fighting all along. It’s a bit more complex than that.
I mean... I've heard from Black and Latino NYPD officers directly for years about this. I'd even given ine if them the contact info for a lical independent journalist after they asked, but to my knowledge nothing ever came of it. I think she got cold feet, which is understandable. Because going against the blue wall of silence in any way tends to be grounds for reprisals. Famously so within the NYPD.
Sam, I'm a lifetime New Yorker. The NYPD despite its attempts to deal with the systemic racism in the department is still considered racists and the most corrupt police department in the country. I worked in the South Bronx as an RN, near Yankee Stadium for over 35 years. I've seen bad cops in action. And I've seen kind, caring community oriented police. Ray Kelly, former police commissioner began community policing. Yet, under the goon mayor, Giuliani, stop and frisk was at its worse. You know why they don't try cops in The Bronx? Cuz they know justice will be served and the cops will not get off. And the cops' union? Racist to the core. They are pathetic. Why do you think DeSantis went to Staten Island to campaign? Guess who migrated over the Verezzano Bridge about 50 years ago from Brooklyn. I went to Wagner College there in 1970-74. There were places I couldn't go with my white nursing student friends. And I was born and raised in Harlem. Guess I wasn't 100% woke then. But boy did I learn quickly. However, I "adopted" an NYPD pct in the Bronx,the 47. Had talks with some young and older PO who swear by Community Policing. They were impressive and stated that they had a bond with their community board. So, attempts have been made. But when I was a kid, I remember when Officer Obrien would wait in the lobby of our building, for the parent of a child going by the wayside. He would speak to them when they entered the building. Of course the neighbors would wait to see whose kid was in trouble. That was a different time and we were so lucky to have big white Officer Obrien who cared. But that blue wall of silence will come down in decades to come. It will take strong leadership from the top down. And also the PBA has GOT to change. This young man undoubtedly joined the NYPD to make a difference and he tried. But my first cousin Jeffrey, was a PO in Brooklyn and he has spoken about that wall. He has also spoken about the untold numbers of black cops shot by friendly fire. So, they have to watch their backs from fellow law officers as well as the criminals. The only solution is to defund the police by shifting the money around, not decreasing numbers. Do like those departments in NJ did years ago before Ferguson. The word defund didn't get invented after Ferguson or Floyd and is highly misunderstood. In ending this novel, just want to praise that young courageous man who has proven himself to be one of the "Ultimate Measure of a Man".
It's everywhere. I had a friend who worked for a morgue in a town of about 50k & the stories she has of the casual racism of cops when they think they're among friends...
@@dr.zoidberg8666 its depressing and awful couldnt pay me enough money to renounce my british passport to live in america it must wreak havoc and impinge on your mental health especially if your from that community ,its tantamount to abuse ,to tortue psychologically and physical in the civil rights abuses and ill-treatment based on immutable attributes you have no control over Alot of sick in the mind people,bigots
We don't become cops because it's against how we were raised + white people are all on the pokoce depts it just something u don't do from the block.....EVER]!!!!
How many whistleblowers must there be before any action is taken? Across the country insider whistleblowers telling the same story of American state funded terrorism.
Of course there’s racism. This is why many people have been saying for years that the supervisors of these officers need to be investigated along with the officers. And the unions that represent them also need to be investigated.
The history of the departments is interesting! How it developed, & it’s policy all align with all it’s in side Firms Banking, Car Dealership, Corporal Corporation, Court House, “Pharmaceutical & Street Sales Reps,(Substances), Realitor & etc.
I’m gonna assume theses hosts don’t live in New York but as a New Yorker, pretty much my entire life, I am not surprised about the NYPD in their racism when they implement stopping frisk, I felt like a terrorist, walking down my own streets, the constant stopping and harassing
This is the most unsurprising thing I’ve ever heard. Even in the most “progressive” areas in the country I’ve witnessed racial profiling and racial discrimination by police. I wouldn’t think that NYC would be an exception.
Brave you Man stay the course . Unfortunately this is Police culture and Policy across America. Birth of a Nation lives on . That’s the Federal Government fighting the Federal Government . No Judge will Decide in your favour . At best a Buy out and Commander Fired/Retired . And Back to normal programming.
It wouldn’t be any change soon. I remember a NYPD threatening my brother to put cases on them because they were talking back to him. When u have police, policing police nothing would change
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No amount of racism in any police department is shocking
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especially in amerikkka
Right im kike shocking to who?🤯
Exactly what I was thinking.
When I saw "racism" in the headline, I was like what's new in America.
Racism in the New York City police is not surprising. What's surprising is that this man managed to not only try to address it internally, but bring a class-action suit, without being dissappeared.
I am chalking this up to increased societial awareness, spread of information (despite also spread of mis-information) and younger next generations less indoctrinated by decades of established authoritarian propaganda.
Economic and Social change progressed through generations, though it's not as fast many would like, but at least it is innevital.
I am hoping this is a sign that the tides are turning, though it has come at great cost to those fewer decades when this kind of knowledge was less widespread, that the powers that be are finding it increasingly difficult to keep "dissappearing", "silencing" whistlblowers and those that can potentially talk as we are in the midst of a *CLASS WAR* and increased awareness....though they will keep trying on occasion to silence critique.
- workers unionizing
- increased social and economic activism
- calls for criminal justice and law enforcement reforms
- anti-war movements and less desire for endless wars ( I believe this is working because the United States has had to rely more on private forces for boots on the ground in Ukraine, but I feel dismayed by the push to go to war with Iran - on behalf of oil corporations)
- costs of living and attention on corporate greed.
etc..
I have over recent years and convinced the root to all the Economic and Social strife is Capitalism and its concentration of wealth and power at the expense of people and society.
Protect this man at all cost. There’s still time. I remember some years ago. There was a cop in a Midwest town suing his captain. He was still working and ended up dying in the line of duty. Before he could go to trial. I remember thinking. Why is he working? This was deliberate.
Same thing I was thinking
So you have come to that conclusion…… How? When it’s always a Black person not brown there is no such thing as that, but how when it’s always someone Black harassed beaten falsely arrested murdered if race has nothing to do with it then why not the Chinese mafia or the Mexican mafia why aren’t they going thru the same things! Like the brother said these race soldiers will say right out their mouth that they can and will arrest someone who is not black for the same crimes that racism that is at the core of all of this! Why does all race groups hate Black American when we have done nothing to any of them not their ancestors nothing, but we are the ones that’s hated! Now poverty plays a part yes to keep Black Americans and Blacks all over the globe in a state of poverty so all other race groups can rise on our backs either for free or for a cheap cost all together! Thanks for sharing and listening! There is only one certain group in America that can change this but they won’t because just the thought of Black people being treated equally is enough to allow these things to happen to them and leave these race soldiers and racist laws on the books! As far as Black on Black crime goes there is no such thing as that because if it were dateline 20/20 and so on would be named something else hell they have an entire dedicated to a certain killing each other but it’s not called wight on wight crime and it’s funny how it’s always pointed out that my people kill each other but the Mexicans kill each other at a higher rate them Black Americans or in Brazil I could go around the world and point out all the atrocities that are being committed and no one calls that group in group crime! When with all that my people have endured on this planet at the hands of all race groups we are only really 60-70 years free 1964! No matter how a certain group act like what was done and still being done to us was so long ago it wasn’t my grandad been thru it my grandmothers mother was a slave and yes we great grands knew her so when one says you never even met a slave I say lies a lot of us alive today met their great grand parents! Let me ask you this if my great grand mother was a slaves and my grand grandmother raised my grand mother she only knew how to raise another slave and then my grand mother raises my mother which my grand mother only knows what she was taught so she raised another slave and so on! Now the question things that were done in the past were to affect when? Also last question when was the first year that police safety was first spoken of? Just a simple way to show you how laws that we have on the books stem from racism and are racist!
@@madreese69I remember the one LAPD cop whistleblower that had the mysterious accident at the police training facility...just before he was to appear in court...hmmm!!!
He was definitely un-alived from the inside.
Rampant racism inside every police department is only shocking if you haven't studied US history. Police departments have always been dominated by racists.
I mean yes and no the first police weren’t racist or at least it wasn’t relevant there was no black people mining coal in West Virginia but the police were started to put down strikes from the miners it’s not always about race bud it’s always about poor vs rich
@@nothanks9503no. The first police were literal enslavers and caught those who escaped. They were always racist
the police in west virginia were the first police? the origins of modern day policing has roots in the slave patrols. it’s kind of indisputable.
@@nothanks9503the origin of cops stems from slave patrols trying to catch runaways.
@@jazo85I genuinely believe that the reason they push back so hard against CRT is for this very reason.
Every 5 years theres a whistleblower...since forever. It'd be great to see actual change at some point.
Dont hold ur breath. The people pretending to 'fight' for us refuse to see that trying to bargin with narcassistic psychopathic bigots DOES NOT WORK AT ALL EVER.
Excactly.
There was a documentary on the NYPD 12 on Hulu. It detailed how their lives were made a living hell just for trying to do the right thing and blow the whistle on the department's quota system I believe.
@@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e I saw that. Freaking insane.
I had a police officer write me a ticket for an infraction I did not make. When I asked him why He did that? He told me “I have a quota” They tell you the truth. When you have no power.
Shocking racism? There is no level of racism in the NYPD that I would find even mildly surprising, let alone shocking.
Of all cities, why did it have to happen in New York?
@@dominicfucinari1942because the NYPD is one of the most racist police departments in the USA.
@@wiseguy01along with the LAPD, they are the other most notorious racist police force in the nation, including the corruption. The NYPD is also bad when it comes corruption as well.
No where else either.
I only lived in the city for about 5 years but 99% sure everything bad people say about cops is true of the nypd and worse
Not just NYC, war veterans with PTSD untreated and learned war zone racism have carried this burden into all police departments nationwide...
That's why ex military who engaged in combat and experienced horrendous trauma shouldn't be allowed to police American citizens. They have too many unresolved issues do to their military service, that render them a danger and a liability to the citizens at hand. They tend to act like they are still in a war zone and that's extremely dangerous. 😎🎭✌️
Proud Boys, KKK vets, too
Not just Police Departments but Prosecutors offices too. They have to meet quotas that means getting plea bargains and trial conviction numbers up
idf training
Very few but don't blame this on us veterans. Your ppl are the biggest culprits of keeping racism alive in this country. Please don't try to pass blame. Racism in this country was started by who? That's who is to blame for all of this.
Tell this to the people who say systemic racism doesn't exist.
It does, just like the worst diversity hires like Claudine Gay. Too big to fail whether left or right.
lol Candice Owens and the likes..
they’ll probably say he’s imagining this. 😂
Good for him. The more light that is shown on these garbage policies, the better.
I visited NYC about 12 years ago and was driving through Harlem. I was shocked to the core after witnessing a ‘stop and frisk’. A young black man or maybe a teen was walking down the street when suddenly 3 cop cars pulled up, he was violently thrown against a wall and was frisked. They found nothing, left him without speaking a word and drove away. No explanation, no apology, no asking if he was okay. The young person looked shell shocked.
All this took place in the time we were waiting at a red light. The inhumane way they treated him is something that I will never, ever forget.
I hope that victim is okay. I can’t imagine being him and ever walking down the street without feeling PTSD.
To know that this targeting of black and brown people is still happening is absolutely horrible.
LAPD = NYPD
Just horribIe!
whoa😦
Then the mayor that instituted it had the nerve to run for president!🤬🤬🤬
@@irmaramirez5873Sure LAPD does plenty of shady stuff, but do they actually do stop and frisk?
My gf lives in NYC and that's something I can't help but worry about. My consolation is that she is on the lighter skin side and a small woman. Which are gross consolations to have.
Really interesting what he said about a more diverse police force not necessarily being anti racist. Minorities can still contribute to racism, whether due to individual prejudices, biases, or simply from contributing to a system steeped in racism.
Diversity is necessary, it's a good step, it's not enough on its own to resolve racism, especially when minorities lack clout within the institutions for whatever reason.
Most definitely!!! Same deal in security. I got out because other black officers were trying to make me think the same way they think and harrass and treat other black people differently from everyone else. I would not and could not conform. It's the culture of policing that is the problem. And just like his experience when the sergeant was telling me to stop black people it was blatant. He was black himself, telling me some bs like that. I knew there was no point in trying to go over his head. I quit.
For whatever reason... This is why we have no friends. You just pointed out the racism within the department and still couldn't say racism is the reason for the lack of institutional power within the department. Wow.
@@SUPERDAVE-jx8mpFor whatever reason 😂
The art of systemic racism
Racism only affects under priveledged or poor americans and black ppl.
Not shocking at all...most likely true of 95 percent of US police forces 😢😢😢
Only 95%? That's a conservative percentage don't you think?
Exactly
Probably more like 100%
99.9% of police forces.
I appreciate this man’s courage. I pray that God will protect him, and all other plaintiffs involved in the suit.
Wait. Nikki Haley says we do not have a racist country. Lol
Apparently the biggest police department in the country is racist. Also in a blue city which all the higher ups in the department voted democrat..
Yet she doesn’t use her full name because she’s well aware of racism.🙄
@@leanysealvarado7499
That part
On the other end criminals get let out easier, like the migrants attacking cops, and detectives were pressed to quit. Feels like cops are treated like Derek Chauvin until proven not guilty.
Regarding Nikki, people will get her name out faster that way. They love low hanging fruit. Similar to Whoopi Goldberg that people get uptight about.
And "THEY" don't......
Racism was baked into policing from the very beginning. There is a cultural aspect that just isn't addressed. Thanks for the guts to do something about it.
Great work by Edwin Raymond, he could've looked the other way for the sake of his career but he did the right thing, and continues to do so. I only hope that this time something will actually be DONE about the NYPD. Eric Adams will do everything he can to protect the NYPD.
I think you're right about Adams. And to think I viewed him as being similar to this dude, only a few years ago.
Racism in the NYPD you say? Well I never.....
I know.. "Shocking" is a bit presumptuous.
@@TheLittleNoobThatCould As a native New Yorker who has lived right outside of NYC, my first thought was "this is not shocking at all". If only there was a way to change the system. Getting rid of corrupt, punitive Mayor Eric Adams would be start.
The government tries to cover up racism in police departments by making the police force more diverse. It's like the Klan putting on suits instead of Klan robes.
Trump vote matters@@gracieb.3054
The fact that we still allow these police departments to run mandates is disgusting and sickening and that sh*t needs to be stopped asap!!!!
I left the police department, and I can tell you that " driving while black" is 100% a real thing. This is one of the reasons I left and changed carriers.
Bonus points if said black is driving while wearing a baseball hat or hooded sweatshirt, correct ?
Tell us something that everybody already knows while admitting nothing will ever change.
Why is he so surprised that they have no problem lying under oath? The SCUS has stated at least once and I believe twice that they are free to lie to suspects, so lying in court is just the next logical step
He didn’t know before joining but soon realize it happens. Many people still don’t realize they have no problem lying under oath. UNTILL IT HAPPEN TO THEM.
I agree, I said the same thing. Cops lie to suspects, they lie on police reports, so what makes people think they don't lie in court.
I can't imagine what this gentlemen went through, as a near and dear friend of mine was merely a dispatcher for the college division of our Metropolis police, and even that position with her anti-policing sentiment led to her constantly being threatened, harassed, blackmailed, and drove her to problems with drinking. The only reason she took the job was so she could afford tuition for her master's degree because they offered a steep discount since it was associated with the college. The harassment started when she secured a position on the union board because she was constantly pushing for disarming measures, Reformation, etcetera. She really truly thought that she could be a force for good on the inside. However, day in and day out she would watch the police refuse to do their jobs unless it was fun or would make them look like a cool action hero, sexually harass other employees and fellow officers, regularly bully and threaten and intimidate she and her family, and it just became too much. There is no changing this mess from the inside. You either fall in line immediately, live long enough to see yourself become the villain, or burn out. Those are the options.
the system does not want change (unless said change benefits the system...)...it's only because the system has become SO comfortable with its own racism that superiors had the confidence to say the things they did, and thankfully some o' that was recorded...
I remember hearing about this lawsuit at the start. I can't believe it's been going for 8 years now!!
Good for him that he’s speaking out and decided to record! Loved this interview
The only ppl shocked are the ones who didn't believe the ppl who said it the first time.
100% True
"Shocking" LMAO.
My thoughts exactly!
Same
Sad that laughing is a normal reaction to racism that ruins or takes lives. Sad that, this... is Amerikkka.
Beat me to it.
remember this from a while back! thank you for putting out this clip
trying to be a whistleblower in a modern police force and _then getting put in a psych ward_ is definitely some sort of nightmare, but i guess the best way to avoid that situation is simply not to become a cop 😂😂
And let the fascist, racist police departments win?
Then, how would you know?
you say that but being a police officer should be a normal societal job. and not subject to this blatant racism
@@speclove1 yes, cops should basically be Starfleet officers in terms of philosophy and ethics. Then they’d be _worthy_ of respect.
U need help if u think this abuse is funny
😂😂😂 Seriously? What's so shocking about it when it happens all the time.
What exactly is so funny about that? You seem amused
It’s hard to work around wickedness. You have to remove yourself. I am proud of you Brother! This was meant to happen. The NY has to be called out.
God bless this man for exposing the truth that many of us have known for decades. If we hired men of Integrity like this, we might actually have a effective NYPD
Good interview and information. Unfortunately some people will deny it to the end.
Shocking headline is unaware of NYPD’s 150+ year history of racism! 😂
They are no better than the “gangs” they are policing. Same policies.
"shocking racism inside the NYPD."
😄😄😄😄🤣🤣🤣🤣
Proud of Edwin for stepping up. I can't imagine how much courage it takes to challenge any police department.
Have the pigs ever explained how the crime rate is supposed to fall when they use quotas to measure their performance?
The only shocking thing to me was that they've been able to get another court case filed and weren't dismessed outright. Props to Edwin for tenacity.
Something can be shocking whilst not being surprising.
Is this really about to be shocking though. I was indeed not shocked.
Just remember NY is in the NORTH! Racism is in the fabric of this country. NYPD has different policies depending on the community. For instance, in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYPD doesn't police that community the same as they do in Bed-Sty. Heavy handed in Black/Brown Community and look the other way in more "desired" communities. I've lived the heavy handed police policies of NYPD. This young man is speaking FACTS!!!
Copperheads existed during the Civil War - people with Southern Confederate sympathies in the North. However, many white Southerners also moved north with black folks during the post-Civil War era. But yes, Northern whites are also racist.
@Iloveswedes I'm a transplant from Norfolk, Va to NY when I was 7. So I'm NYer with southern hospitality, who have seen racism on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Southerners are more overt and Notherners are more covert, but since Donald J Drumpf, that has changed.
@@glennw7118 and Biden is a covert too. So much of us are now despising Democrats particularly the border crisis.
I hope he and the others are given JUSTICE ⚖ 🙏
Shocking to who😅 literally the reason the police was created.
It’s the culture. The most enlightening information I came across was learning that the police came out of rounding up newly freed slaves under the guise of the vagrancy act
You don’t need a “ whistleblower” to expose racism in the NYPD. When my father came to this country from Jamaica in 1957, he went to the local precinct to get an application. They threaten to arrest him.
He found out that you either had to be Italian, Irish or Eastern European, to expect a position.
He thought he would be a good fit because he was a police officer in Jamaica.
Anyway, he went into real estate and made his first million.
"Some of those that work forces, are the same burn crosses" ~ 'Killing in the name of' by Rage Against the machine.
This is EVERY police department in America!
Along with Canada 🇨🇦 and the UK 🇬🇧 or maybe Brazil 🇧🇷 or South Africa 🇿🇦 and Australia 🇦🇺. Westernized countries left or right are wicked.
I agree
The Birth of a Nation stereotypes lives on in 2024 .
❤💪🏾 Protect this man
I'm not surprised I lived in New York City for almost 45 years
😢 I always noticed it as a teenager.
If stop and frisk didn't open our eyes, nothing will.
Great topic! Thanks for sharing this necessary information! It needs to be out in the open!
I find his courage and tenacity incredible. I witnessed similar mafia styled paradigms in the military and that's been my reflection on cronieism in corporate culture and structures ever sense. There's always this image that the organization is doing it's best to do the right thing, but most organizations are doing everything in their power to save their own power and skins and protect the other like minded individuals, while chastising and reprimanding anyone outside of their ideation. The theme continues everywhere I go, whether the military, a company, or even academia. When it comes to racism in America, and the people chosen to protect us, this is how it maintains, and this is how it remains systemic. The only way out is to fire everyone involved with keeping the power structure, and developing a culture that better reflects the values of the community they serve. As long as the wrong culture and cronieism maintains, it will never be defeated, and everyone that does something to fight it will only find their lives and livelihood harmed. So, he's incredible to fight this the way he has, and I commend and respect him.
How many people could've been saved from victimization if the courts took a stand.
Yeah who'd have guessed....
What prevented him from researching and seeing this for what it was before getting into it? He probably knew all about the deeply entrenched racism of the police department but it felt he could work with it, play along and manipulate the system for his own agenda and when he hit the glass ceiling they set for him it suddenly became a reportable crime.
I’m so sick of these types of people pretending that they were freedom fighting all along. It’s a bit more complex than that.
It's the same issue (racism, not just racism but structured racism) at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections.
Not shocking, but still had to be said
I mean... I've heard from Black and Latino NYPD officers directly for years about this.
I'd even given ine if them the contact info for a lical independent journalist after they asked, but to my knowledge nothing ever came of it. I think she got cold feet, which is understandable. Because going against the blue wall of silence in any way tends to be grounds for reprisals. Famously so within the NYPD.
Things will NEVER change in THIS lifetime. 🙏🏿
Sam, I'm a lifetime New Yorker. The NYPD despite its attempts to deal with the systemic racism in the department is still considered racists and the most corrupt police department in the country. I worked in the South Bronx as an RN, near Yankee Stadium for over 35 years. I've seen bad cops in action. And I've seen kind, caring community oriented police. Ray Kelly, former police commissioner began community policing. Yet, under the goon mayor, Giuliani, stop and frisk was at its worse. You know why they don't try cops in The Bronx? Cuz they know justice will be served and the cops will not get off. And the cops' union? Racist to the core. They are pathetic. Why do you think DeSantis went to Staten Island to campaign? Guess who migrated over the Verezzano Bridge about 50 years ago from Brooklyn. I went to Wagner College there in 1970-74. There were places I couldn't go with my white nursing student friends. And I was born and raised in Harlem. Guess I wasn't 100% woke then. But boy did I learn quickly.
However, I "adopted" an NYPD pct in the Bronx,the 47. Had talks with some young and older PO who swear by Community Policing. They were impressive and stated that they had a bond with their community board. So, attempts have been made. But when I was a kid, I remember when Officer Obrien would wait in the lobby of our building, for the parent of a child going by the wayside. He would speak to them when they entered the building. Of course the neighbors would wait to see whose kid was in trouble. That was a different time and we were so lucky to have big white Officer Obrien who cared.
But that blue wall of silence will come down in decades to come. It will take strong leadership from the top down. And also the PBA has GOT to change. This young man undoubtedly joined the NYPD to make a difference and he tried. But my first cousin Jeffrey, was a PO in Brooklyn and he has spoken about that wall. He has also spoken about the untold numbers of black cops shot by friendly fire. So, they have to watch their backs from fellow law officers as well as the criminals.
The only solution is to defund the police by shifting the money around, not decreasing numbers. Do like those departments in NJ did years ago before Ferguson. The word defund didn't get invented after Ferguson or Floyd and is highly misunderstood.
In ending this novel, just want to praise that young courageous man who has proven himself to be one of the "Ultimate Measure of a Man".
Sorry but I don’t think defending police departments is the answer. I want police around to my community. You seem like you don’t.
APTTMHG-YAHUSHUA! BLESSINGS AND PROTECTION AND PRAYERS FOR THIS BLACK OFFICER.
THANK YOU SAM@ MAJORITY REPORT.
I am sure this is not specific to the NYPD
It's everywhere. I had a friend who worked for a morgue in a town of about 50k & the stories she has of the casual racism of cops when they think they're among friends...
@@dr.zoidberg8666 its depressing and awful
couldnt pay me enough money to renounce my british passport to live in america
it must wreak havoc and impinge on your mental health especially if your from that community ,its tantamount to abuse ,to tortue psychologically and physical in the
civil rights abuses and ill-treatment based on immutable attributes you have no control over
Alot of sick in the mind people,bigots
“Paddy Rollers,” described in a book 📚 about slavery I read aback in the 70’s.
This is why I understand people from the "hood" not wanting to become cops.Seems like you have to ignore alot of stuff for a check ✔️
We don't become cops because it's against how we were raised + white people are all on the pokoce depts it just something u don't do from the block.....EVER]!!!!
SHOCKING! I'm so shocked.
This young man’s generation are going to change humanity for the better. Stay tuned ☝🏾
What about the passport bros and dating and the family court system
@@jqight740 In what specific contents are you referring to by your questions?
They are more aggressive over the traffic stop than they are a murder
The comment about police looking like perps is about the numerous undercover Black police officers that were shot and killed in New York.
What's shocking is that citizens let this happen on their tax dollars.
Shocking to who? These are the people who implemented stop and frisk
Who's doing over 98% the murders in the city?
Most black officers go along to get along. This man is a rarity...
If it's so shocking why am I not surprised in the slightest?
The table has turned, all eyes on NYPD accountability and transparency for NYPD. and FBI.
Well said , the mafioso culture of NYPD is real / legal gang culture...
This needs more coverage
Didn’t they make a episode of Law and order SVU about a guy who was recording and was thrown in the psych ward was that the same guy?
The messed up part of this is that they convinced you to go after your own nationalities instead of just doing your job.
He joined the leopard force they bit his face? Crazy!
SHOCKING!
A cop of principle and logic. I like it!
Far and few between...
Thank you for exposing more than we thought you could. We pray for your safety now because many of those who have in the past have been deleted.
.. and begins the chapter of acceptance based on 'merit' ..
Sadly nothing will change
How many whistleblowers must there be before any action is taken? Across the country insider whistleblowers telling the same story of American state funded terrorism.
Police and shocking racism in the same sentence is crazy. 🙄
Racism has never been shocking in NYC.🤣
No way. What? Wow!! I am shocked and appalled by this discovering...just groundbreaking.
Of course there’s racism. This is why many people have been saying for years that the supervisors of these officers need to be investigated along with the officers. And the unions that represent them also need to be investigated.
The history of the departments is interesting! How it developed, & it’s policy all align with all it’s in side Firms Banking, Car Dealership, Corporal Corporation, Court House, “Pharmaceutical & Street Sales Reps,(Substances), Realitor & etc.
I’m gonna assume theses hosts don’t live in New York but as a New Yorker, pretty much my entire life, I am not surprised about the NYPD in their racism when they implement stopping frisk, I felt like a terrorist, walking down my own streets, the constant stopping and harassing
U got kids walking around with backpacks turned around while selling drugs. What is in the back packs? Gtfoh
I’m shocked at the surprise!! Who didn’t know??
Wait, a police department is racist. That could never happen. /s
The people interviewing him know exactly this is the policy
This is the most unsurprising thing I’ve ever heard. Even in the most “progressive” areas in the country I’ve witnessed racial profiling and racial discrimination by police. I wouldn’t think that NYC would be an exception.
He said he meant well!! *YOU LOST ME WITH THAT* Smh …
Brave you Man stay the course . Unfortunately this is Police culture and Policy across America. Birth of a Nation lives on . That’s the Federal Government fighting the Federal Government . No Judge will Decide in your favour . At best a Buy out and Commander Fired/Retired . And Back to normal programming.
Racism in NYPD is from all people in NYPD he may be a stand up guy. But a lot of minority cops have the same mentality as the mainstream cops.
Who is actually shocked?
It wouldn’t be any change soon. I remember a NYPD threatening my brother to put cases on them because they were talking back to him. When u have police, policing police nothing would change
Shocker.
This was either 1 really good interview or 1 hell of an interrogation.