Wow. Just wow. So the entire black and Hispanic community deserves to be constantly stopped and risked. Being black means they are guilty.
By the way, your math is way off. According to NYPD records, the most guns seized in any one year was 663. That was out of 191,000 recorded stops. Most critics will say a cop only documents about one in three such stop. I'd ask you where you got the 60,000 figure, but I can see the traces of toilet paper on it.
In its best year, the results were two guns per thousand stops. As it's rare that a stop doesn't involve at least two cops and often more, one has to wonder how many crimes could have been prevented if those hundreds of thousands of police manpower had been spent patrolling.
Most arrests from Stop and Frisk were for possession of marijuana, a substance that was decriminalized just to avoid this situations. You are allowed to posses small amounts of pot in NY. But you can't openly display it. Two Officers stop a kid and tell him to empty his pockets. If he pulls a joint out of his pocket, he's arrested for public display. If he leaves it in his pocket and the cop found it during the search, he's arrested for failure to comply with a lawful command.
In my neighborhood, blacks and Hispanics were less than forty percent of the population, but accounted for almost ninety percent of the stops.
By the way, your math is way off. According to NYPD records, the most guns seized in any one year was 663. That was out of 191,000 recorded stops. Most critics will say a cop only documents about one in three such stop. I'd ask you where you got the 60,000 figure, but I can see the traces of toilet paper on it.
In its best year, the results were two guns per thousand stops. As it's rare that a stop doesn't involve at least two cops and often more, one has to wonder how many crimes could have been prevented if those hundreds of thousands of police manpower had been spent patrolling.
Most arrests from Stop and Frisk were for possession of marijuana, a substance that was decriminalized just to avoid this situations. You are allowed to posses small amounts of pot in NY. But you can't openly display it. Two Officers stop a kid and tell him to empty his pockets. If he pulls a joint out of his pocket, he's arrested for public display. If he leaves it in his pocket and the cop found it during the search, he's arrested for failure to comply with a lawful command.
In my neighborhood, blacks and Hispanics were less than forty percent of the population, but accounted for almost ninety percent of the stops.
