But, I didn't give it too much time. The crime is probably speeding, so there shouldn't be an arrest (in most cases). What I saw showed the report is classic abuse of statistics by Liberals.
The idiocy above is what happens when you are so invested in your paradigm that you refuse to examine new information that might threaten your views. YOu're reacting off of assumptions, without even bothering to even read the inforamtion that was provided to you.
THE STATISTICS IN QUESTION WERE COLLECTED BY NYPD...hardly a liberal advocacy group.
NYPD officers do very little traffic enforcement of the type you describe. In fact, NYPD beats are so small that most patrol officers WALK THEIR BEAT. As it is applied in NYC, Stop and frisk is the policy of stopping people ON THE STREET because you
suspect them of criminal behavior, and searching them without placing them under arrest.
IN NYC, this policy has been advocated
to reduce FIREARM and DRUG RELATED OFFENSES. In other words, police officers see people on the street who look like they may be carrying a weapon or engaged in drug trafficking, stop them, search them for illegal weapons and drugs, and if those items are found, arrest them.
This policy is not about traffic enforcement.
Currently, there is a class action lawsuit occurring in NY state about the procedure, and I strongly believe that the ability of NYPD to use this "tool" will be overturned in court because of constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure. However, such processes can take a long time, and in the meantime, NYPD officers will likely continue to search around 700,000 people a year because they believe those individuals are involved in some kind of criminal act and are looking for evidence that supports that suspicion.
Unsurprisingly, NYPD officers tend to find blacks and brown people more inherently suspicious (hence, searching disproportionately higher numbers of them). The stats on actual arrest for criminal involvement, however, do not bear those suspicions out. White people, who were searched proportionally less often, had higher rates of involvement in criminal activities. Brown and black people, who were more likely to be searched, were actually significantly less likely to be arrested as a result of the search (meaning that the officer's suspicions were not justified). About 90% of the people who were stopped and frisked were guilty of NOTHING, and it is argued by many constitutional law types that these types of searches are unconstitutional.
IN short, NYPD has been engaging in EXACTLY the practice that you and the rest of the white moron posse advocate for several years now, to the tune of searching millions of people. And, as it's played out, a lot of these stop and frisks have occurred on the basis of racial profiling, with the apparent assumption that blacks and brown people are more criminally involved than white people, and thus, should be treated with special caution and suspicion. Research on the actual results of this policy show that racial profiling DOES NOT WORK, because most of the minorities who were stopped and frisked were innocent of wrongdoing.
Stop and Frisk legal definition of Stop and Frisk. Stop and Frisk synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.
I've written this in hopes that
other people will read this explanation, if not the entire study, because I have few hopes that you and others like you have the intellectual capacity to comprehend it. But then, you just never know.