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"The politics of being mayor at a time when racial polarization was taking place put him in a very unpopular position, " said Rep. Charles Rangel, the long-serving Harlem Democrat who backed Mr. Koch in 1977 but supported Mr. Dinkins in 1989.
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Poor people deserve safe housing as much as anybody else, and it takes more than a little chutzpah to sue the city for racial discrimination when it is trying to improve the living conditions of minority residents.
FORBES: Supreme Court Takes Case Where Landlords Claim Discrimination
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Chief SIZER: We've just gone through our in-service training annually, and we had instructors who really talked about that, clueing officers in that disrespectful communication is often interpreted by minorities as racial bias when in fact the officer may be acting like a jerk, and maybe he or she routinely acts like a jerk.
NPR: Black And Blue: Police And Minorities