STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): I read a report that apparently there, in that black church in Cleveland, you were asked what you would do about black-on-black crime, and you said maybe it’s time to bring back stop and frisk.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calls for what some consider a broader use of the controversial, police policy known as stop and-frisk.
Stop-and-frisk was implemented by then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the 2000s, and drew condemnation from minorities who said they were disproportionately targeted for searches by police when they had done nothing wrong.
Stop-and-frisk, however, has been the target of protests and successful legal challenges in NY and other big American cities in recent years as a tactic that unfairly singles out minority citizens and violates their civil rights. The process was expanded under former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but was deemed unconstitutional in 2013 by the Federal District Court in Manhattan.
House Speaker Paul Ryan ducked Thursday on whether he supports the “stop and frisk” policy pushed by Donald Trump.
TRUMP: I think Chicago needs stop and frisk. “You have to do something. It can’t continue the way it’s going”, Trump said in an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday.
While Trump has attempted to woo black voters recently, his support of stop and frisk may have the opposite of its intended effect. “I was referring to Chicago with stop and frisk”.
Mr Trump has positioned himself as a “law and order” candidate and regularly cites violence in black communities as reason enough for him to earn black votes on election day. It’s fucking useless. Not only is it useless, but it was also called unconstitutional by a NY state judge in 2013. According to MSNBC, “just 1.5% of all stop-and-frisk arrests resulted in a jail or prison sentence”.
As Leon H. Wolf, a writer for the conservative website RedState.com, put it on Thursday, “Seems like the sort of thing an organization committed to the preservation of the Second Amendment rights of all citizens should be vigilant against and using its considerable political power to oppose, right?” Moreover, the NYCLU also found that in the more than 5 million stops between 2002 and 2013, guns were found in only 0.2% of the cases. “I wanted to know, what would you do to help stop that violence, black-on-black crime?”
“They’re proactive, and if they see a person possibly with a gun or they think may have a gun, they will see the person, and they’ll look and they’ll take the gun away”, Trump said, defining what he thought the program should look like.
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“The bottom line is it created a huge amount of division between police and community”, de Blasio said.
