stop-and-frisk

This then makes departments institute arrest quotas, and questionable tactics like stop-and-frisk.

I'm not sure that NYC residents who have been subjected to profiling and stop-and-frisk harassment would agree with that characterization.

From stop-and-frisk to civil forfeiture and the TSA, the United States is every bit a police state with just a thin outer layer of constitutional democracy.

Isn't stop-and-frisk the actions of the whole?

* Police enforcement is sometimes discriminatory: Much research supports that some minorities are harassed by law enforcement (e.g., 'driving while black', or stop-and-frisk in major cities).

It's more important to find agreement on what it isn't: It isn't the black race, and the cure isn't harsh discipline and criminalization of behavior in schools, and stop-and-frisk laws that target mostly black people.

I get that Asia can be pretty racist, but until they start imprisoning minorities disproportionately, or implementing policies like stop-and-frisk, or allowing police to shoot unarmed minorities, then let's just step back for a minute.

This conversation is totally beside any point, but stop-and-frisk has happened over 5 million times since 2002 (9 out of 10 leading to nothing), and a community of thousands were monitored based on their religion over a period of years, although it never generated a single lead.

That's just "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" from dragnet surveillance, DUI checkpoints, and stop-and-frisk, but phrased slightly differently.

> "Perhaps, we should offer a bare-bones version with simple video & audio capture capabilities, to at-risk individuals like inner-city youth, who are persistently subject to unjustified stop-and-frisk searches [4] by various peace officers, at a nominal throwaway price.

At the very least - and at the bare minimum - someone close to Sergey [3] should have blurted, "Perhaps, we should offer a bare-bones version with simple video & audio capture capabilities, to at-risk individuals like inner-city youth, who are persistently subject to unjustified stop-and-frisk searches [4] by various peace officers, at a nominal throwaway price.

Stop-and-frisk in NYC is very closely linked to marijuana laws.

Stop-and-frisk measures in New York, which were enormously valuable in stopping felons from their next murders, have become persona non grata since black people are disproportionately like to be found breaking parole, carrying weapons, or transporting drugs.