NYPD Stop and Frisk

[ls317]

Updated: 12:37 p.m. CT March 1, 2007
NEW YORK - The New York City Police Department has hired the RAND Corp. to examine its stop-and-frisk policy for evidence of racial bias after statistics surfaced showing more than a half-million pedestrians were searched last year.

Police officials deny that race influences the stops, but Commissioner Raymond Kelly said they “thought it was important to have a separate, independent review.”

Statistics provided by the police department to the City Council earlier this month showed a fivefold increase since 2002 in the number in stops and searches to more than 500,000 in 2006.

[RL3AO]

1. I can see it now...

I've searched 129 white people this year and 156 black people. Better head down to Wall Street.

:sarcasm:

[Bonobo]

2. Just curious, but do you even know what you're talking about?

QUIZ: What principle of American justice is most endangered by the "stop and frisk" policy?

[itsmesgd]

4. Free movement? Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness? The Fourth Amend?

It's all part of the coerced conformity that goes along with traffic cameras and the rest of big brother. They want to keep us afraid and used to the idea of willfulingly submitting to the authorities whenever they ask. Next up will be the demand "papers, papers" said with a thick German accent. Welcome my son to the machine.

[PLF]

3. and they wonder why people call them PIGS.