I posted the following links for a reason. For those reading who may not know, I am an African-American male, in my late 40s. I consider it younger middle aged. I live in New York but I travel to Florida frequently because my elderly mother and aunt reside there. I have been in Florida for about three weeks on mixed family leave and annual leave to assist my mother. I have always said that I would never WANT to stay in Florida. In the three weeks I have been here there seems to be a car accident and a violent crime every day.
The vehicle accidents seem to almost always be fatal and the crimes vary from home invasions to bank robberies to convenient store hold ups. Every day. If it's not a robbery then it's the occasional shooting for no apparent reason.
My point for bringing this up is that being African American from New York I know a little about racial profiling. It's been reported about the STOP and FRISK program involving the New York Police Department and men of color where the mayor and the police commissioner justify stopping men of color in particular neighborhoods. The philosophy is that in certain precincts where there is high crime the police will "randomly" stop a person. Statistically though, in these neighborhoods most of the crimes involve people of color so naturally people, primarily Blacks and Hispanics are up in arms. For me, considering Black on Black crime continues to be too high for me I don't have a big problem with STOP and FRISK with certain modifications.
In Florida there is no problem concerning STOP and FRISK because there is no reported use of the program. However, as I stated earlier there seems to be a violent crime in Florida (specifically Central Florida) every day. More disturbing for me is that a lot of these crimes are caught on video and they mostly involve young Black men.
Cops looking for suspects in armed robbery at Maitland hotel
Hotel robbery 911 call: 'I need the police... I was just robbed'
Police investigate Orlando-area hotel and restaurant robbery spree
Not include in the links:
1. A recent arrest were a 16 year old Black man was accused of breaking into a home at gunpoint.
2. A Black kid in his teens allegedly shot a student in a high school. The student survived but still has a bullet in him.
To be fair, it's not only happening n Florida. in New Jersey four young Black males are facing federal car jacking charges and might get the death penalty when the victim got shot in the head, killing him. I still blame our government...in part...for this growing trend. In part. I still think you are responsible for your own actions, however the conservative believe of "ending entitlements" have led to more violent criminal acts. Recently Congress approved a budget that will cut unemployment benefits. Republicans said that extending unemployment hurt peoples' chances of getting a job because they were no longer encouraged to look for work. This comes after they voted to cut food stamps. Understandably you have desperate people committing desperate acts, like robbing the local 7-11 and Circle K. Two days ago (also not in the links) a guy in a Spiderman mask robbed a convenience store with a sword and left with $100. The hotel robberies were also for small amounts of cash. I don't steal or endorse robbing but to me, anything less that $100K is not worth risking going to prison over and if it involves pulling a gun on a person it is definitely not worth the effort.
People need to wake up. This is only going to get worse.
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