The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy: http://t.co/RTiFPY7r...
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Lori Jo's comment,
October 25, 2012 2:24 AM
"We are not for no policing, we are for better policing." I truly believe this is the best way I've heard it come from a rational argument the entire time I've been researching the Stop-and-Frisk controversy. Nobody should live in fear of those that are supposed to protect them. I'm glad to see that there were so many in that small community willing to step forward and testify to the mistreatment they have received at the hands of the NYPD's policy. It's not to say that Every officer in the department is aggressively racially profiling during the stop and frisks, but enough of them are to make a significant impact on the community. They seem to be regressing out of community policing into a former state where it felt the police were always against the common citizen.
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