Still Not Understanding Stop And Frisk, Right-Wing Media Now Misinforming On Chicago

[hazlnut]

Still Not Understanding Stop And Frisk, Right-Wing Media Now Misinforming On Chicago Policing

Like NYC, Chicago is an economic, industrial, and cultural center in the U.S. -- but Fox News rubes are being taught to fear all things Chicago -- like higher education, culture, gun control and the black President.

Right-wing media have repeatedly misrepresented the latest court opinion finding New York City has been unconstitutionally applying the common police tactic of stop and frisk and are now baselessly citing the murder rate in Chicago as an example of what will occur without this law enforcement practice.

Confronted by the most recent court opinion finding the version of stop and frisk implemented by the New York Police Department (NYPD) unconstitutionally discriminates on the basis of race and without reasonable suspicion, right-wing media have either ignored the constitutional flaws or have inaccurately assumed that the court held all stop and frisks unconstitutional.

In their defense of current practices a federal court found were not consistent with proper stop and frisks as described by the Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio, right-wing media have also claimed that without police unconstitutionally stopping persons of color, New York City will descend into terror and criminality.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has predicted that "the virtual war zone that was New York City from the 1970s through the early '90s" will return. Fox News hosts and contributors have called ending the unconstitutional practices that purportedly check the "disproportionate percentage of crimes committed by young minority men" and protect "people who are trying to get by, not get killed, not get robbed, not get raped on the streets of New York," a "disaster." The National Review Online editors warned the practice condemned by federal courts is nevertheless what is "prevent[ing] the city's backsliding into its pre-Giuliani state of criminal chaos[.]"

Mentioning the city "Chicago" is a right-wing dog whistle. Blow it and the rubes howl.

 

[Melungeon]

I have not been following the whole frisk issue, but are they wanting to frisk people without cause?

 

[hazlnut]

What's funny about this story is the bigots on Fox and Friends secretly support Stop and Frisk.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Still Not Understanding Stop And Frisk, Right-Wing Media Now Misinforming On Chicago Policing

Like NYC, Chicago is an economic, industrial, and cultural center in the U.S. -- but Fox News rubes are being taught to fear all things Chicago -- like higher education, culture, gun control and the black President.

Right-wing media have repeatedly misrepresented the latest court opinion finding New York City has been unconstitutionally applying the common police tactic of stop and frisk and are now baselessly citing the murder rate in Chicago as an example of what will occur without this law enforcement practice.

Confronted by the most recent court opinion finding the version of stop and frisk implemented by the New York Police Department (NYPD) unconstitutionally discriminates on the basis of race and without reasonable suspicion, right-wing media have either ignored the constitutional flaws or have inaccurately assumed that the court held all stop and frisks unconstitutional.

In their defense of current practices a federal court found were not consistent with proper stop and frisks as described by the Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio, right-wing media have also claimed that without police unconstitutionally stopping persons of color, New York City will descend into terror and criminality.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has predicted that "the virtual war zone that was New York City from the 1970s through the early '90s" will return. Fox News hosts and contributors have called ending the unconstitutional practices that purportedly check the "disproportionate percentage of crimes committed by young minority men" and protect "people who are trying to get by, not get killed, not get robbed, not get raped on the streets of New York," a "disaster." The National Review Online editors warned the practice condemned by federal courts is nevertheless what is "prevent[ing] the city's backsliding into its pre-Giuliani state of criminal chaos[.]"

Mentioning the city "Chicago" is a right-wing dog whistle. Blow it and the rubes howl.

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I was going to try an comment on this, but all you are doing is spitting all over your keyboard.