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Equal Protection Clause In The Fourteenth Amendment

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Lovina John, Victoria Duncan
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MVHS

We, the People’s Party of Minisink Valley High School believe the Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment should be strictly enforced to prevent the unfair enforcement of law due to different racial, religious, ethnic, etc. backgrounds.

Whereas: Between January 2004 and June 2012 New York City, conducted 4.4 million stops. Only 6% of these stops resulted in summonses. This means that 88% of that 4.4 million did nothing wrong during the stop. The vast majority of these cases were of Hispanic or black percent (83%).

Whereas: Police statistics show that in the first quarter of 2014, 54% of blacks were exposed to the police stops, 29% Hispanic, 12% white, and 5% Asian. Whereas:

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