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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Absolutely. But using exaggerated statistics doesn't help the credibility of the argument and some of the attitudes expressed in this thread are counter to what this country is supposed to be all about. I have spent time in countries where *I* was the one who could be stopped and frisked for simply walking down the street - it's not where we should want this country to go.
In concept, stop and frisk might work. In practice, it seemed to use race alone as a "suspicious activity" and generated some ugly statistics. If we truly feel that, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer," then we cannot accept a system that interferes with the rights of 10,000 citizens in order to remove weapons from 14 of them.
There has to be a way but I sure don't know what it is and I'm concerned that no one else has discovered it yet.
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Where is the exaggeration that 13% of the population commit about 50% of the homicides and 60% of the violent crimes?
(actually about 1/2 of that number, since the majority of the homicides/violent crimes are committed by males...)