NY Post: Cop Bashers Menace Minorities

By Heather Mac Donald/New York Post ~ The New York Civil Liberties Union last week again proved that it doesn't care about the lives of black (or Hispanic) New Yorkers, by launching another tedious lawsuit against the NYPD.

The lawsuit seeks an official tally of the race of civilians shot by the police since 1998 - but everyone already knows what those numbers would show. And all but the most pig-headed know why.

The great majority of those shot by the police are black or Hispanic - for the simple reason that street-level crime is overwhelmingly committed by black or Hispanic perps.

More important - though not to the NYCLU - is the fact that the overwhelming majority of the victims are also black or Hispanic. That means that stopping crime is first and foremost a lifeline for the city's minority community.

Read all of this provocactive column at http://www.nypost.com.

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