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In open defiance of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, New York s City Council last week passed two bills aimed at curbing the NY Police Department s practice of "stop-and-frisk," which has been among the most effective crime-fighting tactics international travel agencies in shreveportla ever employed. One of the bills mandates the appointment of an independent inspector general to monitor the department for evidence that its use of stop-and-frisk may be unfairly targeting blacks and Hispanics; the other opens the door to racial profiling lawsuits against the NYPD. Black Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Queens), who prides himself on being a strong voice against profiling, says that he himself was once "dehumanized" by the experience of being stopped and frisked international travel agencies in shreveportla as a teen, and thus wishes to spare other minority youth the same pain.
In a nutshell, the laws governing stop-and-frisk permit police to briefly detain a person upon reasonable suspicion of his or her involvement in, or intent to commit, a crime—even if there is not yet enough evidence to make an arrest. To justify such a stop, an officer must be able to cite "specific and articulable facts which, international travel agencies in shreveportla taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion." During detention, an officer may question the suspect and, if he deems it advisable, conduct a weapon search by frisking international travel agencies in shreveportla the suspect's outer garments.
But civil-liberties and civil-rights international travel agencies in shreveportla activists nationwide—and in New York particularly—routinely charge international travel agencies in shreveportla that stop-and-frisk practices are racist international travel agencies in shreveportla because they target nonwhite minorities in disproportionate numbers. Manhattan Institute Fellow international travel agencies in shreveportla Heather MacDonald , who has done immensely important work in researching the facts about stop-and-frisk and placing international travel agencies in shreveportla them in proper perspective, notes that in 2011 in New York City, African Americans, who constituted 23% of the city's population, were fully 53% of all police-stop subjects. By contrast, whites were 35% of the city s population but only 9% of stop subjects.
international travel agencies in shreveportla Left-wing outfits like the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights maintain that if the racial makeup of those affected by "stop-and-frisk" international travel agencies in shreveportla does not mirror the racial makeup of the surrounding community as a whole, international travel agencies in shreveportla we can deduce that racism and/or discrimination are at work. But these critics omit the most important facts of all from the equation : In New York City during 2011, black offenders were responsible for 66% of all violent crimes, including approximately 70% of robberies and 80% of shootings. international travel agencies in shreveportla Blacks and Hispanics, combined, accounted for an astonishing 98% of all shootings in the city. Whites, by contrast, were responsible international travel agencies in shreveportla for only 5% of New York s violent international travel agencies in shreveportla crimes, and scarcely 1% of its civilian shootings.
These plain and inarguable facts explain precisely why the residents of black and Hispanic neighborhoods seem to be "targets" of stop-and-frisk more often than residents of mostly white areas. In some cases, crime rates in minority neighborhoods are literally dozens of times higher than elsewhere.
The statistics above, it should be noted, raise a vital question that merits contemplation: If blacks constitute international travel agencies in shreveportla 66% of all violent offenders but only 53% of stop-and-frisk targets, and if whites are just 5% of violent international travel agencies in shreveportla offenders international travel agencies in shreveportla but fully 9% of stop-and-frisk targets, could it not be argued that it is actually whites, and not blacks, who are disproportionately international travel agencies in shreveportla "targeted" by stop-and-frisk?
And here s another reasonable question that deserves an answer: While critics claim that stop-and-frisk policies "target" blacks and Hispanics in minority neighborhoods, why do they not also say that such policies, in another sense, selectively favor blacks and Hispanics by devoting a vastly disproportionate share of police manpower and city resources to protecting  them and their communities? After all, it isn t only the perpetrators in those places who are overwhelming black and Hispanic; the victims are mostly members of those demographics as well.
The role of stop-and-frisk in New York increased dramatically after Rudolph Giuliani replaced international travel agencies in shreveportla David Dinkins as mayor in 1994,and was one among a constellation of effective new strategies introduced by Giuliani. Others included so-called international travel agencies in shreveportla " broken windows " policing, which clamped down on petty crimes as a way to also forestall more serious offenses, and the use of COMPSTAT , a computer technology tool that helped pinpoint international travel agencies in shreveportla specific international travel agencies in shreveportla high-crime neighborhoods geographically on a map. The results of Giuliani s efforts were extraordinary, as evidenced by the fact that during his eight years in office, the incidence of homicide in the city fell from an annual average of 2,085 during the Dinkins administration, to just 649 by the final year of Giuliani s tenure. From a statistcal international travel agencies in shreveportla standpoint, this was by far the most dramatic crime drop in the recorded history of America, unrivaled by reductions in any other city. The positive trends continued under Giuliani s successor, Michael Bloomberg, with total homicides in the city ranging between 471 and 597 during each of his first ten years in office.
Those who have benefited most, by far, from the stop-and-frisk policies put in place by Giuliani (and later, Bloomberg) are the black and Hispanic residents of such traditionally high-crime areas as Brooklyn s 75th Precinct, Bedford-Stuyvesant s 81st Precinct, international travel agencies in shreveportla and Harlem s 28th Precinct. Indeed, blacks and Hispanics have accounted for fully 79% of the decline in homicide victims citywide since 1993. If, from 1993 forward, crime rates would have stayed at their Dinkins-era levels—rather than at the much lower levels brought about by the Giuliani/Bloomberg administrations— more than 10,000 additional black and Hispanic males would have met an early death-by-homicide during the past two decades. Also during that period , the number of rapes that occurred annually in New York City declined by 54.8%; robberies fell by 80.3%; felony assaults dropped by 57.8%; and burglaries were reduced by 84.6%. international travel agencies in shreveportla This means that many tens of thousands of black and Hispanic would-be victims were spared the anguish associated with those crimes as well.
Yet none of these facts matter in the least to our perpetually outraged champions of "civil rights" and "civil liberties," wedded, as they are, to their quasi-religious conviction that white racism international travel agencies in shreveportla lurks menacingly around every corner and lies at the heart of public policies like stop-and-frisk. Thus do we see the spectacle of New York State Senator Eric Adams, a staunch opponent of "racial profiling," pining international travel agencies in shreveportla for a return to the halcyon international travel agencies in shreveportla days of the Dinkins administration, when, according to Adams, even current police commissioner Raymond Kelly, who also served under Dinkins, was made of kinder, gentler stuff: "Kelly was one of the great humanitarians in policing under David Dinkins," says Adams. "I don't know what happened to him that all of a sudden international travel agencies in shreveportla his philosophical understanding of the importance of community and police liking international travel agencies in shreveportla each other has changed." The "humanitarianism" that Adams wistfully longs to restore came at a dear price, however, and went a long way toward filling the graveyards of New York.
I smell the those who are willing to give up freedom for temporary security deserve neither argument. Police, generally, already have too much power which they brazenly and serially abuse. There are other CONSTITUTIONAL ways to stop or deter crime. How did this article make it on to a brilliant conservative website?
hyedenny, it is you who smells. Giuliani and Bloomberg s methods work. The police know who are committing the crimes. This article makes it on to a brilliant conservative website because international travel agencies in shreveportla it shows how the hard left are trying to dismantle our civilization.
New York Civil Liberties international travel agencies in shreveportla Union and Center for Constitutional Rights MUST know their complaints are quite stupid. To presume that incidents of frisking must match up with population percentages is completely stupid. Stats and common sense show us that a return to how it was under Dinkins will mean more deaths. There is nothing unconstitutional about searching those who commit crimes. This article makes a good point that matching the profile of those searched to those committing the crimes makes sense and save lives. You, on the other hand, make no sense. international travel agencies in shreveportla Apparently you want crime rates to rise. Fk you and anyone who thinks like you.
Great point Adam. When I moved to NYC in 1977 it was worse than the so-called Wild West. The subways were covered with graffiti both inside and out. Spray painting was so common it would go on while riders were in the car. You would be taking your life in your hands to say something. I was mugged twice during those early years, once at knifepoint and another international travel agencies in shreveportla time at gun point. Every citizen knew one or more people who had been mugged. Crime was rife. Guiliani s administration brought tremendous changes international travel agencies in shreveportla and although I believe that Bloomberg has falsified international travel agencies in shreveportla some of the crime statistics, it s still one of the safest if not the safest big city. What a difference. Thanks Adam for saying succinctly what needed international travel agencies in shreveportla to be said without being as wordy as I.
I believe that is true for any large city in the U.S. Why do you think the left wants us all to crowd together in big cities while taking away our right to own guns? Because the criminals will have free reign and the government can then step in and tell us we need it for our safety . (And people are easier to control if they are concentrated in large numbers crowded together.)
It s obvious you are not being sincere in your criticism, but simply provocative, so this reply isn t really for you, but for the few poor souls who stumble here, who might get the impression that there is some sort of point to your pointless post:
Please tell us how. While it is true that there are police who abuse their positions ultimately it is the criminals who abuse their right to live in civil society. As has been note numerous times, The Constitution