Sen. Eric Adams: NYPD Commissioner Told Me Stop-and-Frisk is Used to Instill Fear in Youths of Color

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http://www.alternet.org/sen-eric-adams-nypd-commissioner-told-me-stop-and-frisk-used-instill-fear-youths-color



n Monday, New York State Senator Eric Adams testified in federal court that NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told him the policing tactic stop-and-frisk is used to instill fear in young men of color.

“[NYPD Commissioner Kelly] stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instill fear in them that every time that they left their homes they could be stopped by police," Adams testified. Over the past decade, the NYPD has stopped upwards of 5 million people, nearly 90% of whom are Black or Latino.

Kelly allegedly made the remark at a July, 2010 meeting with elected officials including State Sen. Marty Golden (R-Brooklyn), former Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn), and former Democratic Governor of New York David Paterson, who was deciding whether to sign a bill to block the NYPD from compiling a database of individuals stopped by the police, the vast majority of whom are innocent of any crime. Adams told Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin that, at the meeting, he expressed concern that blacks and Hispanics were “disproportionately” stopped, questioned, and frisked by police, prompting the Commissioner to defend the tactic as crucial to preventing violence -- by making its targets fearful of police interactions.

“I told him that I believe it was illegal and that that was not what stop and frisk was supposed to be used for,” he testified, adding that Kelly responding by asking, "How else are we going to get rid of guns?"

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1. So in other words, it's terrorism.

nt

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3. ...

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. The fact that fear often resutls in anger and hate seems to have escaped him.

Not to mention the fact that ruling by fear almost always has a bad outcome, eventually.

What a stupid and short sighted concept.
But not at all surprising.
Explains a lot about the massive over reaction to OWS and any other sign of protest.

[cali]

2. No it's not. Not by any actual definition of the term

It's oppression. It's illegal. It's harassment- to put it mildly. It's racism writ large.