1,400 Summonses For 'Manspreading' In 2015

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2015-06-01 13:29

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some people are arguing that this is an excuse by police to increase their arrest quotas, and to crack down on undesirable ethnic minority males. Russia Today reported that the NYPD issued approximately 1,400 summonses for manspreading in 2015.
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Robert Gangi, Director of Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), said to Russia Today “We think it’s driven by a quota system. There is almost no other rational explanation for why the cops would conduct this kind of arrest unless they are under pressure to meet certain numbers, to meet with their productivity goals. It’s a classic pattern. Somebody gets a summons for a low-level thing, they don’t show up in court, the warrant is out… A cop stops you a second time, even if for another low-level thing, and it’s the policy of the department to arrest you.”

The first man arrested had his charges dismissed, due to the fact that he was arrested at 12:11 a.m. and the judge believes that no one was likely to be inconvenienced at such an early hour.'

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and still... women are continually allowed to take up as many as three seat spaces with their purses, bags and fat arses!

i also believe that men are targeted for this utter bollocks, because they are one of the last acceptable groups to discriminate against.
...and if the man that is "guilty" of "manspreading" is a minority, ooooh! icing on the cake, for the police officers, eh?
seeing that a good number of the men arrested just *ahem* happen to be racial minorities.

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Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Thu, 2015-06-04 08:45