"The studies I've read about assert Stop & Frisk isn't as much of a boon to law & order as its advocates would have us believe." sear
a) It took me a while to figure it out.
I suspect it's an editing error, the word "assert" inserted at the wrong location in the sentence?
b) Therefore I'm obliged to clarify.
sear's clarification:
The studies I've read about Stop & Frisk assert it isn't as much of a boon to law & order as its advocates would have us believe.
A thousand pardons for my inadvertent apparent editing error, and confusing, mis-worded assertion.
"Well, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The contraband recovered over the years since the Terry decision belies your "studies." " T2 #77
Ah!
An aficionado of the one-sided coin.
Sir:
It is not my job to educate you.
Suffice it to say there's more to evaluating such policy than in absolute terms of whatever benefit it is perceived to derive.
"Well, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. " T2 #77
It's called "cost : benefit" analysis.
OF COURSE there are benefits! That was NEVER the issue.
The question is, do the benefits outweigh the costs by margin sufficient to warrant implementing the protocol long term.
If you study our criminal justice system as closely & as long as I have and do, what you will learn is that minorities, mainly Blacks and Hispanics comprise a progressively higher % of our CJ system, as go further up the scale.
Blacks are reportedly about 13% of the U.S. population. But their per capita population in our jails is substantially higher than that.
A level up, in our prisons, and the ratio of Blacks to Whites is higher still.
And by the time we get to death row, Blacks may comprise over 50% of the population.
And who do you think is targeted by Stop & Frisk?
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." Thomas Paine
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me." pastor Martin Niemöller