Some questions about stop and frisk -

[hedgehog]

8. Thank you for that report - my takeaway is that what started as

a policy with some good results (guns off the streets) but lots of problems has ballooned into a policy that is causing a lot of pain with no better results. If the original results had been better analyzed, I think we would have a better policy that would be supported by the communities. (i.e behavioral profiling, not racial profiling) My reading is that in some neighborhoods ( not all) any young black man may be caught in the cross fire of someone else's argument, but that every young black man is likely to be stopped and subject to physical handling by a police officer. In addition, a policy that might arguably be tuned to cut down on gang violence has been misapplied to keep young men of color out of certain neighborhoods.

Ironically, I suspect that when white men are stopped and frisked, they are more likely to be carrying a gun because they know they are less likely to be frisked!