The real truth about NYPD stops & frisks

[Archangel M]

An interesting article from the NYPost on the NYPD's practice of "Stop and Frisks".

Saving minority lives.The real truth about NYPD stops & frisks

The New York Police Department recently released its stop-and-frisk data from 2009, triggering the usual denunciations from anti-cop activists and pundits -- none of whom understand policing or, apparently, the reality of New York crime.

These advocates purport to defend the interests of the city's black and Hispanic residents. If their agenda were realized, however, the result would be thousands more minority lives lost to violence and a return to the anarchy that once engulfed many minority neighborhoods.

 

[Sukerkin]

That is an interesting article indeed, Angel. I am amazed at some of the statistics in it. Even if they are out by a big margin of accuracy, some are mind-boggling e.g. 98% of shootings carried out by Black and Hispanic criminals .

 

[Archangel M]

Of course what gets ignored is the issue of who the victims are.

When some (too many) people hear those stats they tend to extrapolate that "whites" are the victims when in fact that is not the case. As this article stated...it's victims that drive tactics like this.