Bloomberg Says Stop-and-Frisks Should Be ‘Mended, Not Ended’
June 11, 2012 by Kristen
Filed under Police State
“I understand why some people have called for stops to be eliminated entirely,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday before The First Baptist Church of Brownsville about the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk program. “But there is no denying that stops take guns off the street and save lives…I believe the practice needs to be mended, not ended, to ensure that stops are conducted appropriately, with as much courtesy as possible.”
Of course observers have denied the value of the program, not only because the mayor’s proffered number of guns seized and lives saved is inconsistent with statistics, but also because the program invades individual freedoms, most frequently blacks or Latinos.
