People who are not stopped and frisked are generally okay with the policy. In other words, white people.
/Nobody likes the word "racist" but if someone says that people are safer because of a "stop-and-frisk" policy that targets minorities, what would you call that? That's what Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
A new documentary has been released that contains audio of New York City police stopping a Harlem teen last June for looking "very suspicious." When asking for clarification as to why he was being held, the response was, "For being a f*ckin' mutt." The police continued to threaten him and said they would break his arm. The teen, Alvin, called 911 to report the abuse and is still awaiting mediation even though Alvin's dad is a traffic cop!
See the documentary entitled "The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-And-Frisk" here. There is footage from police stating they were told to go "violate some rights." It's highly disturbing that even though they knew the kid's dad was a cop, they continued to harass him and even seemed to hurt him worse after that.
What does the mayor have to say about appointing an inspector general to look into this police brutality? He told David Seifman of the New York Post, "The last thing we need is some politician or judge getting involved with setting policy, because you won't be safe anymore. But today, you are. Think about that when you write your story."
Did stopping a teenaged son of a traffic cop make New Yorkers safer? People who are not stopped and frisked are generally okay with the policy. In other words, white people.
Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg is just having some logic issues as he recently decided that taxing New York's rich is a "dumb" idea too.
