Judge questions efforts of NYPD’s stop-and-frisk ‘all-star’ Kha Dang who was ‘wrong 95 percent time

[xchrom]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/10/judge-questions-efforts-of-nypds-stop-and-frisk-all-star-kha-dang-who-was-wrong-wrong-95-percent-of-the-time/

Judge questions efforts of NYPD’s stop-and-frisk ‘all-star’ Kha Dang who was ‘wrong 95 percent of the time’


In late summer 2009, few New York City police officers could match Kha Dang in street stops. Working with an aggressive plainclothes unit in Brooklyn’s 88th precinct, the eight-year veteran of the force was among the NYPD’s top four stoppers.

Dang racked up a total of 127 stops in the third quarter of that year. He performed 75 frisks and, on 37 separate occasions, searched inside suspects’ clothing or belongings. He was, in the words of one civil rights attorney, an NYPD “all-star”.

Despite his efforts, Dang’s hit rate – the number of times in which his stops led to an arrest or summons, or removed a gun from the streets – was called into serious question in federal court this week.

Dang made a total of six arrests out of his 127 stops. He wrote one summons. He found contraband once. He never recovered any weapons and he only stopped people of color, primarily African Americans, 115 times to be exact. He never stopped a white person.

[X_Digger]

1. And cue the 'Bloomie can do no wrong' defender in 3..2..1.. n/t

[bluedigger]

5. Yeah, but if you combined this with camera surveillance, it would work.

It just needs to be fully implemented to be effective and make us all safe.

[sarisataka]

6. It is for our own good

and probably stopped 1,518,641 criminals who were afraid of getting caught.
Once it is in place everywhere white people will get stopped too. It just happens to be in areas where there are no white folks

[bobclark86]

8. But, but, but...

He was on the cover of Time with a woman who got shot and some dude from Delaware! He's such a left-wing guy! Sure, he doesn't like brown people, or hippies, or people who don't make millions of dollars a year... but c'mon! He sends NYPD officers to Arizona to make YouTube videos!

[BlueToTheBone]

2. DU rec nt

[Baitball Blogger]

3. The fact that racism is at play here, is that someone who had a 95% failure rate was considered

an all star.

[joeunderdog]

4. How many men in suits got stopped?

This is so wrong on every level.

[uponit7771]

7. A lot if they were black or brown...this guy seems a lil racist