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kudzu22

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7. Stop & frisk as carried out by NYPD is completely wrong

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 04:21 PM

Mar 2013

I don't care if it gets guns off the streets. I don't care if it ostensibly saves lives. Rights are rights and the Fourth Amendment is more important.

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Some questions about stop and frisk - [View all] hedgehog Mar 2013 OP

Never justifiable IMHO nt Live and Learn Mar 2013 #1

There is very very little reason to believe Terry Stops reduce crime Taitertots Mar 2013 #2

Here's the New York Civil Liberties Union report on 2011 stop and frisk data. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #3

Thank you for that report - my takeaway is that what started as hedgehog Mar 2013 #8

Stop and frisk even sounds completely fascist. JaneyVee Mar 2013 #4

this is white mans burden justication of institutionalized racism La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2013 #5

It may be a policy that some support as long as it's someone else's hedgehog Mar 2013 #9

i really doubt it, because eventually it will be their kid La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2013 #11

yes it stops some crime and stops some illegal guns dsc Mar 2013 #6

Stop & frisk as carried out by NYPD is completely wrong kudzu22 Mar 2013 #7

Thank you all for giving me new information to chew on; hedgehog Mar 2013 #10