DL Open Thread: Mon., Nov. 11, 2019

Delaware, Biden And Banking.   A must-read, not so much for the Biden stuff, which we’re starting to learn, but also for an overview of how Delaware became the Delaware that we know and don’t love. Yes, the duPonts figure prominently.

BREAKING: Rethug Rep. Peter King Will Retire.  You can bet he’ll be showing up on Morning Joe more than ever.  A media whore not unlike Chris Coons. District could definitely flip.

Why No D Should Ever Vote For Bloomberg.  Here’s what stop-and-frisk like was under Bloomberg:

In 2002, the first year Bloomberg was mayor, 97,296 of these stops were recorded. They surged during Bloomberg’s tenure to a peak of 685,724 stops in 2011, near the end of his third term. Nearly 90 percent of the people who were stopped and frisked were innocent of any wrongdoing.

A New York Times analysis of stops on “eight odd blocks” in the overwhelmingly black neighborhood of Brownsville in Brooklyn found close to 52,000 stops over four years, which averaged out to “nearly one stop a year for every one of the 14,000 residents of these blocks.”

In 2009, there were more than 580,000 stop-and-frisks, a record at the time. Of those stopped, 55 percent were black, 32 percent Hispanic and only 10 percent white. Most were young, and almost all were male. Eighty-eight percent were innocent. For reference, according to the Census Bureau, there were about 300,000 black men between the ages of 13 and 34 living in the city that year.

Not only that, but those who were stopped had their names entered into a comprehensive police database, even if they were never accused of committing a crime. As Donna Lieberman, then the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in 2010, the database became a place “where millions of completely innocent, predominantly black and Latinos have been turned into permanent police suspects.”

Nothing more needs to be said.

Robert Reich: Why Billionaires Should Fear Sanders And Warren.  None of them got where they are due to ‘free markets and capitalism’. Reich lays out how they got their money and why they shouldn’t get to keep all of it.

Algorithms=Gender Discrimination?  Which reminds me: Break up Apple.

AMTRAK To Riders: No Lawsuits For You.  Train Derails? Take it to arbitration.  Betcha Joe has carved out an exception for himself…assuming he takes AMTRAK any more. What does our comatose Congressional delegation think?

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