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| Source:The Nation- with a video about stop & frisk. |
"Several thousand people marched down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on June 17 to demand an end to the New York Police department's controversial Stop-and-Frisk tactic. The silent march, organized by the NAACP and a coalition of nearly 300 other groups, sought to draw attention to the damage the massive spike in street interrogations is causing to communities of color.
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From The Nation
There are plenty of laws, at least in American history, that are unconstitutional, as well as ineffective. I'm thinking of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act today, as well as bans against homosexuality in the 1950s and 60s, in general, bans against inter-racial marriage, forced segregation by government, alcohol prohibition in the 1920s and 30s, the so-called War On Drugs today.
There are also laws that are perhaps unconstitutional, but seem to work. I think New York City's Stop & Frisk police policy seems to be one of them. I don't live in New York, I live 200 miles South of NYC, just outside of Washington. But the crime rates there, not just in this century so far, have plummeted, as well as in the 1990s. Stop & Frisk seems to be a reason for that.
I'm not a lawyer and don't pretend to be one even in the Blogosphere, let alone on TV, but unless opponents (especially on the Left) can argue and claim that minorities and gays are specifically being targeted by the NYPD Stop & Frisk policy, simply because they're minority or gay, or both, they're going to have a helluva time getting this law thrown out by the courts, even in supposed left-wing New York City.
