Off duty, African-American police officers of New York have said to have felt threaten by their fellow police. Twenty-five of the officers interviewed but one said to have been victims of racial profiling when not in uniform. The officers said this included getting pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces. The majority of them said to have been pulled over multiple times and only 7 of them said the had a gun pulled out on them. Desmond Blaize, a retired sergeant said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn’s upmarket Prospect Park. “ I had my ID so it didn't escalate” said Blaize. Blaize has also said to have sued the department in the past saying he has
