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Originally Posted by Whitley
Under Mayor Bloomberg the NYC police did random (? not sure if I'd call it random) stop and frisk. They took many guns off the streets, and high crime neighborhoods saw a reduction in crime. Their claim was that it fell under the Terry Stop (Terry v Ohio). I do not believe they had a reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime having been, about to be or in the process of happening. It was stopped under DeBlasio (may have been challenged in court as well) and crime went up. There are ways to reduce crime, but some of those ways infringe on peoples rights (in my opinion). Interesting factoid about DeBlasio. He and his wife are getting a divorce. He said in an interview, that he wondered if her being a self proclaimed lesbian should have been a warning that they would run into problems with the marriage. Can not make this stuff up.
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I was never a big fan of stop and frisk. It sorta smacked at some Nazi saying “papers please”. Yes, it did catch some bad guys and got guns off the streets but it also interfered with good people, minding their business, being frisked. Remember reading about one NYPD cop with an unusual shift who was stopped almost weekly walking home at 3am.
Stop and frisk was only one tool in Guilianis approach. The most significant one was to go after minor crime…turnstile jumping, squeegee guys and vandalism.
DiBlasio is separating not getting divorced. Still living together but seeing others. Yep, that should work out real well!