Protesting NYPD's 'stop-and-frisk' policy in New York City

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Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy march on Friday in the Bronx borough of New York City. The NYPD says the stops assist crime prevention while opponents say they involve racial profiling and civil rights abuses. According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, during the first nine months of last year 514,461 city residents were stopped by the NYPD, of whom 451,469 were innocent (88 percent). Racially, 54 percent were black, 31 percent Latino and 9 percent white.

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An opponent of the New York Police Department's controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy march on Friday.

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Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy march on Friday.

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Hmmmm, if you find most guns on black people, then logic NOT RACIAL PROFILING would tell you to look there first, right? Where are the gangs constantly doing drive by shootings and gang killings? Then that is the neighborhood you do the most searhes in no matter what color the residents are. LOGIC does not need to be abandoned because one group always cries racial profiling! This PC stuff is rediculous. PROFILING has been part of law enforcement forever. One does not stumble around blind hoping to bumb into a criminal. One uses the facts and how they add up to know where you are most likely to find your criminal and what he or she is most likely to act and look like. Give it a rest. The TSA searches grannies and little kids because they don't want to be accused of racial profiling. How many white grannies or little kids have they arrested for planning bombing in our country? Wake up and use your heads for something besides a hat rack!

If people don't want thier group to be the target of law enforcement I would suggest they police thier own group instead of whining.

    Reply#1 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:02 AM EST

    Correction, you DON'T find most guns on black people. And spell "their" properly!...idiot.

      #1.1 - Wed Feb 1, 2012 10:09 AM EST
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      This is what Ray Kelly's Stop&Frisk policy has brought us. He's made historically marginalized neighborhoods into open-air prisons:

      Elders Arrested By NYPD in Harlem Jan. 5, 2012
      watch?v=_S_Q4KumJNE

      Stop&Frisk is the New Jim Crow. Ray Kelly is a warmonger and a businessman.
      Meanwhile, the cops are reading at a 6th grade level and will assure you they're just "doing their jobs."

        Reply#2 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:06 PM EST

        @Shaking my head--actually, when the NYPD actually tries to get guns off the streets, they have a much better rate of success when they go into rich, majority white neighborhoods and employ strategic police methods. Stopping and frisking every black person in the neighborhood without cause has dismal results in terms of actually finding drugs and/or guns. Just look at the facts. Most of them are available here: and you can look at the individual results of stop and frisk by precinct here: For example, in the 73rd precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn in 2009, the police stopped almost 27,000 people. They frisked half of them. Despite the fact that to conduct such a warrantless search requires "reasonable suspicion" that a crime is occurring or about to occur, only 2 percent of all those stops resulted in arrest. And many of those arrests were for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, or the like when people protested this violation of their rights. What this policy does, instead of making any of us safer, is create a dangerous amount of tension between people who live in these communities who are subject to such daily harassment and abuse and the officers who patrol their streets.

          Reply#3 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:27 PM EST

          *Raw Footage* Elders Arrested By NYPD in Harlem Jan. 5, 2012
          Imagine two white grandmothers taken this way. You can't, it’s inconceivable, one can’t picture it. (No where in the city can one film two white grandmothers being taken away.) Look, S&F is a crime against humanity. Do Black and Brown children of this city deserve no more than criminalization and ridicule? We all have cameras and there’s no logical reason we can’t cop-watch our way out of this cop problem. Cameras on.
          This Quinn inspector general hazarah's not gonna change a thing and that's why it's being proposed. Developers need S&F. It's how gentrification works. Oink developers (Columbia U, etc.) are running the old oink oink bang bang game on us, that's what we all know.

            Reply#4 - Wed Feb 1, 2012 10:54 PM EST
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