Quote (Beowulf @ Oct 9 2018 09:40am)
aka violate the civil liberties and privacy of black people that cops feel like messing with on that given day under circumstances that do no warrant search
causing more hostility, escalation, and opportunity for abuse and violence
Broken windows, compstat and stop & frisk didn't lead to more hostility, escalation and opportunity for abuse and violence in NYC. It led to a safer city, and crime plummeted. Until it reached a tolerable enough level that the people and their government decided to drop Stop & Frisk and conveniently dispose of it in the judiciary as a no-contest out that avoided any political fallout. Yet here we are, 5 years after De Blasio won and Floyd v NYC ended Stop & Frisk and 7 years since the peak usage- yet hostility and violence towards the police has skyrocketed. The BLM movement started around the same time NYC finally laid down the last remnants of Giuliani's tough-on-crime era, and we're still hovering around what's either the peak or a continuing escalation in anti-police narrative.
Stop and frisk and racial profiling are about a balance between our constitution protecting us from the government and our government protecting us from criminals.
When crime is rampant, tough measures sacrifice some of those liberties in the name of security and deal with the problem. When crime is gone, we can afford our principles. That's just the nature of society. And when shit really hits the fan, we suspend habeus corpus and declare martial law and Lincoln tells Taney 'molon labe motherfucker'.
Chicago has let crime get really bad. Chirag is in desperate times and requires desperate measures.