WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:05:17.7420000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.226 As protests raged in Washington DC, NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:02.230 --> 00:00:04.300 over the killing of George Floyd, NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:04.300 --> 00:00:05.680 the message was clear. NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:06.715 Black Lives matter. NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:08.100 DC Mayor Merial Bowser, NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:08.100 --> 00:00:09.480 standing with those demonstrators NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:10.859 right on that street. NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:10.860 --> 00:00:12.240 She renamed Black Lives NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:13.620 Matter Plaza days earlier, NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:13.620 --> 00:00:15.690 but some here believe when it NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:15.690 --> 00:00:17.470 comes to the controversial police NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:17.470 --> 00:00:19.474 tactic known as stop and frisk. NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.000 Mayor Bowser in the DC Police Department NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:24.312 have not lived up to that message. NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:24.312 --> 00:00:26.038 We're not asking for anyone NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:26.040 --> 00:00:28.110 to hate, the police were not NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:28.110 --> 00:00:30.256 asking for, you know, police beta. NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:30.256 --> 00:00:33.170 Fear for their lives or anything like that. NOTE Confidence: 0.84299755 00:00:33.170 --> 00:00:35.318 We're just asking that we shouldn't NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.468 have to fear for our lives. NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:37.470 --> 00:00:39.516 For simple apps, the most recent NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:39.516 --> 00:00:41.410 data released by DC Police, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:41.410 --> 00:00:43.648 a stark reminder of the racial NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:43.648 --> 00:00:45.540 imbalances that still exist with NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:45.540 --> 00:00:47.850 stop and frisk here in the district, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:47.850 --> 00:00:49.745 MPD reporting almost 63,000 total NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:49.745 --> 00:00:52.023 police stops from July 22nd to NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:52.023 --> 00:00:53.578 December 31st of last year. NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:53.580 --> 00:00:56.444 Black people making up 72% of those stops, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:56.444 --> 00:00:58.968 but only 46% of the city's population, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:00:58.968 --> 00:01:01.680 according to the most recent census numbers. NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:04.060 But not all of those police stops NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:06.318 resulted in a search or frisk. NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:08.448 And when we drill down on the NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:08.448 --> 00:01:10.673 more than 8000 searches and frisks NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:10.673 --> 00:01:12.743 over that five month period, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:12.750 --> 00:01:14.660 we discovered this stunning statistic NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:14.660 --> 00:01:17.289 an average of 45 black people are NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:17.289 --> 00:01:19.564 searched or frisk by DC police every NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:19.564 --> 00:01:21.704 day here in the nation's capital NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:21.704 --> 00:01:23.797 compared to just two white people, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:23.797 --> 00:01:25.819 we shared our stop and frisk NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:25.819 --> 00:01:27.380 analysis with April Goggans, NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:27.380 --> 00:01:29.414 one of the core organizers of NOTE Confidence: 0.87666565 00:01:29.414 --> 00:01:31.310 Black Lives Matter DC because NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:31.310 --> 00:01:33.470 we are stopped so much. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:33.470 --> 00:01:35.042 Because we are black. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:35.042 --> 00:01:36.614 We have more interactions NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:36.614 --> 00:01:37.970 with the police. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:37.970 --> 00:01:39.422 The more interactions people NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:39.422 --> 00:01:40.874 have with the police, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:41.963 the more brutality, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556562 00:01:41.963 --> 00:01:43.420 the more misconduct. The NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:43.420 --> 00:01:45.310 latest numbers even more dramatic NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:45.310 --> 00:01:47.599 than the stop and frisk data NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:49.585 we first exposed back in 2018. NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:49.590 --> 00:01:51.900 In our series, DC police stop and NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:54.011 Frisk and Goggins told us Mayor NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:54.011 --> 00:01:55.761 Bowser simply hasn't done enough NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:55.761 --> 00:01:58.501 to make sure the city and her NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:01:58.501 --> 00:02:00.081 Police Department address the NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:00.081 --> 00:02:01.569 continued racial disparities people NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:01.570 --> 00:02:03.380 need to know that mirror NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:03.380 --> 00:02:04.828 browser is a hypocrite. NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:04.830 --> 00:02:06.310 That Black lives matter. NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:08.530 Plaza is is completely an attempt NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.014 by her to further hide and pretend NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:11.014 --> 00:02:12.989 black people aren't being treated NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:12.989 --> 00:02:15.179 terribly by the Police Department. NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:17.250 In painting the mural it's painting NOTE Confidence: 0.86383504 00:02:17.250 --> 00:02:20.010 over that we made multiple requests to NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:20.010 --> 00:02:22.230 Mayor Bowser's office to respond to NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:22.230 --> 00:02:24.095 Goggans allegations, but the mayor's NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:24.095 --> 00:02:27.060 office has yet to get back to us. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:29.932 DC police has also not answered this list NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:29.932 --> 00:02:32.248 of questions we sent the Department, NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:32.250 --> 00:02:34.410 but Police Chief Peter Newsham was NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:34.410 --> 00:02:36.306 asked about the continued racial NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:36.306 --> 00:02:38.256 disparities with stop and frisk. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:38.260 --> 00:02:40.005 During budget testimony in front NOTE Confidence: 0.8592385 00:02:40.005 --> 00:02:42.130 of DC Council just last week, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:42.130 --> 00:02:44.810 so I think that the data is concerning NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:44.810 --> 00:02:47.269 and I do think that it's incumbent NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:47.269 --> 00:02:50.520 upon us to get a sense as to what NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.690 our data should look like. Chief NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:52.690 --> 00:02:54.610 Newsham said, claiming there's a NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:54.610 --> 00:02:57.234 problem with stop and frisk in DC NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:57.234 --> 00:02:58.834 solely because the racial makeup NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:02:58.834 --> 00:03:00.875 of the city doesn't match the NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:00.875 --> 00:03:02.909 racial makeup of the people who NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:02.909 --> 00:03:04.658 are searched and frisked over, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:04.658 --> 00:03:05.714 simplifies the issue, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:07.480 and he repeated an explanation. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:09.688 MPD first gave us in 2018. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:09.690 --> 00:03:11.530 That police stops are usually NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:11.530 --> 00:03:13.002 the result of lookouts. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:13.010 --> 00:03:15.320 A lookout is a suspect description NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:15.320 --> 00:03:17.620 given to officers by a member NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:17.620 --> 00:03:20.021 of the public after a crime is NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:20.021 --> 00:03:22.257 committed back then Ypd told us NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:22.257 --> 00:03:24.450 since the majority of lookouts are NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:24.450 --> 00:03:25.930 for African American suspects, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:25.930 --> 00:03:27.028 it makes sense. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:27.028 --> 00:03:28.858 The majority of people stopped NOTE Confidence: 0.8477357 00:03:28.858 --> 00:03:29.990 by police would NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:29.990 --> 00:03:31.514 also be African American. NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:31.514 --> 00:03:33.419 So essentially the police are NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:33.419 --> 00:03:35.113 responding to the information that NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:35.113 --> 00:03:36.985 has been given to them without NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:37.047 --> 00:03:38.839 taking that into consideration. NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:41.794 When we are evaluating what our stops. NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.090 Should look like here in the district. NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:45.090 --> 00:03:47.460 Think is is not giving it NOTE Confidence: 0.85599124 00:03:47.460 --> 00:03:49.040 enough of a thoughtful NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:51.665 look. In fact, in its key findings NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:03:51.665 --> 00:03:54.094 summary posted on its website alongside NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:03:54.094 --> 00:03:56.548 that new stop and frisk data, NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:03:56.550 --> 00:03:58.920 the Department doesn't mention race once, NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:03:58.920 --> 00:04:00.895 instead highlighting what it sees NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:00.895 --> 00:04:03.656 as the positives, it says most of NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:03.656 --> 00:04:05.626 the police stops were justified. NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:05.630 --> 00:04:09.186 61% led to a ticket, 21% to an arrest. NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:09.186 --> 00:04:11.660 MPD. Also spotlighting that those 8000 NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:11.660 --> 00:04:14.320 searches and frisks account for just 13% NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:14.320 --> 00:04:17.155 of the overall number of police stops. NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:19.320 Meaning the majority of stops were NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:21.138 resolved without physical contact between NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:21.138 --> 00:04:23.088 the officer and the person stopped. NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:23.090 --> 00:04:25.618 DC police also touting how police stops can NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:25.618 --> 00:04:28.329 help get illegal firearms off the streets. NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:28.330 --> 00:04:31.178 So we went back to the data and NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:31.178 --> 00:04:33.511 were surprised to learn just 2% of NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:33.511 --> 00:04:35.317 those searches or frisks turned up NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:35.317 --> 00:04:37.884 a gun or other weapon with police NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:37.884 --> 00:04:40.278 finding weapons on black suspects at NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:40.348 --> 00:04:42.637 about the same rate they do whites. NOTE Confidence: 0.83668244 00:04:42.640 --> 00:04:43.678 This needs to NOTE Confidence: 0.85885984 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.780 be elevated to a national audience. NOTE Confidence: 0.85885984 00:04:45.780 --> 00:04:48.000 People need to know that in. NOTE Confidence: 0.85885984 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:49.735 Right here where thousands of NOTE Confidence: 0.85885984 00:04:49.735 --> 00:04:51.470 people are protesting that we NOTE Confidence: 0.85885984 00:04:51.529 --> 00:04:53.300 have a policing problem. Chief NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:55.370 Newsham told DC Council his Department NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:04:55.370 --> 00:04:57.208 is now working with researchers NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:04:57.208 --> 00:04:59.198 to better understand the racial NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:04:59.198 --> 00:05:01.765 disparities in the stop and frisk data NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:05:01.765 --> 00:05:03.886 and weather changes need to be made. NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:05:03.890 --> 00:05:06.025 But he also said that work has NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:05:06.025 --> 00:05:08.638 been put on hold because of the NOTE Confidence: 0.850823299999999 00:05:08.638 --> 00:05:11.300 coronavirus shut down Eric Flack WSA 9.