If there’s one issue that won Bill de Blasio the New York Democratic mayoral primary in September, on his way to a crushing 74 percent to 24 percent victory in the November general election, it was his full-throated opposition to “stop and frisk.”
Under this policy, police officers stop, question, and frisk people they deem suspicious, usually with zero evidence that they’ve committed a crime. De Blasio’s predecessor Michael Bloomberg and his GOP election opponent Joe Lhota strongly defended stop and frisk, arguing that it helps reduce the crime rate.But the voters of New York had clearly had enough of a policy that, in practice, overwhelmingly targets minorities, especially young blacks, only a tiny fraction of whom are ever found to be carrying drugs, or a gun, or indeed to have done anything wrong at all.What few Americans (or at least white Americans) know is that stop and frisk is not limited to New York City. Versions of the policy are in place across the country. And just as in New York, whatever crime-fighting benefits derive from the policy come at the expense of contravening basic American principles of equal treatment under the law and of angering law-abiding minority citizens whose support and cooperation the police need to fight crime.
to stereotype or profile there has to be a perceived notion of guilt before you come into contact with those you are prematurely judging, that is a zealous cop looking to prove his assumptions like Darrell Issa has yet to pin a tail on a donkey, plenty of targets on his side but he's not interested in his own.
how do you go through 5 years of republican obstruction and destruction like voter blocking, misleading voters as to time and place and not utter one word in disapproval let alone investigation.
ntil recently, there has been limited data on the degree to which stop-and-frisk policies, as opposed to other factors or police tactics, specifically cause alienation and resentment. But a first-of-its-kind survey we conducted in Kansas City makes that connection quite clear.
Although it is hard to document how widely police departments employ stop-and-frisk-like tactics, the data tells the same story nearly everywhere studies have been done on who is stopped by the police: racial minorities are stopped at considerably higher rates than whites.The underlying reason for this is not racism by individual officers. Rather, it is police department directives requiring officers to make large numbers of stops just to check people out. Police departments widely favor this practice because it allows officers to proactively seize guns and drugs, in officer-initiated stops, rather than waiting to respond to crimes.
quota policing is a problem that does create problems such as stp and frisk, depending where you are and how corrupted the execution of such laws are determines whether you live or die or go to jail or be beaten, it is i think the mother of SYG laws that are no more than license to kill.
what will be the out come when the first publicized Black man stands his ground against a White guy??? we already know woman of color can be jailed for 20 years Standing her ground with no casualties against another Black man, what would she have gotten had he been White? real food for thought.
