NYC mayor defends "stop and frisk" at black church

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

NYC mayor defends "stop and frisk" at black church

By Chris Francescani
NEW YORK | Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:46pm EDT

(Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took his defense of the police department's "Stop and Frisk" program to one of Brooklyn's highest crime communities on Sunday, championing the program from the pulpit of a black church in Brownsville.

Civil rights advocates, civil libertarians and a federal judge have criticized some aspects of the program as unlawful, abusive of residents' rights and disproportionately aimed at blacks and Latinos.

Use of the stop and frisk program - in which police stop and question people they suspect of unlawful activity and frisk those they suspect of carrying a weapon - has risen dramatically during the Bloomberg administration, to 685,724 in 2011 from 160,851 in 2003. About 53 percent of those stops resulted in physical searches.

With Police Commissioner Ray Kelly sitting in the front row of the First Baptist Church of Brownsville, Bloomberg detailed a flurry of statistics he said showed the program had saved minority lives while still lowering the number of people incarcerated from a decade ago.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/10/us-usa-newyork-stopandfrisk-idUSBRE8590CE20120610

[99Forever]

1. You post this without a single thought of your own?

Is that even allowed here?

[dionysus]

2. what's your problem?

[99Forever]

3. I have...

... a "problem" because I ask a simple question?

Got a nose problem?

[snooper2]

17. Sweet! Jerry Garcia vs. John Lennon!

[Ian David]

5. Yes. Yes, it is allowed here. n/t

[99Forever]

15. Thank you for the answer to my question, minus the snark. n/t

[Ian David]

18. In this case, I decided to be condescending instead of snarky. That means I was talking down to you.

[99Forever]

19. Well silly me...

.. here I was thinking that you were acting like a decent human being. Guess I won't make that mistake again.

[EFerrari]

9. It's called allowing people to draw their own conclusions. n/t

[marmar]

14. Huh?

So, you have to put some sort of spin on an article before you post it?

[Freddie Stubbs]

24. Yes, that is allowed here

[Brigid]

4. It seems to me . . .

Bloomberg is trying to destroyv his re-election chances.

[dsc]

6. He isn't running again

so there is nothing to destroy in that regard.

[Brigid]

7. I was wondering about that,

Considering the kind of stunts he's been pulling lately.

[Number23]

8. "96 percent of shooting suspects are black and Latino"

What?

[EFerrari]

10. This @sshole gets more disgusting every day.

This is what impunity looks like.

[spin]

11. What disturbs me is that the rich and famous get to own or carry weapons in public in NYC ...

But the average person finds the expense and hurdles involved in getting a carry permit daunting at the least.

The Rich, the Famous, the Armed
By JO CRAVEN McGINTY
Published: February 18, 2011

MEN and women. Democrats and Republicans. Doctors, lawyers, merchants and moguls. A remarkable, if relatively small, cross-section of New Yorkers legally own handguns, according to public records obtained by The New York Times.

Among the more than 37,000 people licensed to have a handgun in the city are dozens of boldface names and public figures: prominent business leaders, elected officials, celebrities, journalists, judges and lawyers.

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The 41,164 handguns registered with the Police Department as of Jan. 14 include those owned by more than 2,400 people who live outside the city but have permission to bring their weapons here — people like Roger E. Ailes, the president of Fox News, whose license lists an address in New Jersey; John J. Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, who lives in Westchester County; and Sean Hannity, the conservative talk-show host, who lives on Long Island.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/nyregion/20-Owners.html?ref=nyregion

The argument over whether people should be allowed to own or carry firearms is another debate. I just feel that when it is allowed, it should be a privilege available to all honest citizens. When the one percent gets all the goodies, I get upset.

Check out the multimedia link on the page to see some other people who have the right to own or carry firearms in Mayor Bloomberg's kingdom.

[Meiko]

12. Ah yes, the privileged few

Of course it doesn't mention the armed security details that follow these elitists around. I could care less really. If they have money and want to spend it on guns and armed guards, go ahead. What I object to is the double standard, it's one of the things that is slowly eroding our country.

[spin]

13. I agree. I really am not concerned if Don Imus or Sean Hannity carries a firearm ...

but I feel it would be only fair if a totally honest Joe Blow who lives in a dangerous neighborhood has the same privilege without unreasonable expense or hassle.

[PavePusher]

16. I just want Bloom-fuck-berg to give up his security detail for a month.

Not much to ask of him, IMNSHO.

[Comrade Grumpy]

21. Ah, now you have me daydreaming of an Imus-Hannity shoot-out.

[spin]

23. LOL (n/t)

[_ed_]

20. Bloomberg is a two bit racist

financial criminal.

[Comrade Grumpy]

22. Bloomberg's NYPD thugs are shaking down a generation of young people of color.

I'm sure that's going to teach them to love and respect the police. Not.