Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens to pastor Darrell Scott duing the Midwest Vision and Values Pastors and Leadership Conference at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, on September 21, 2016.
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Speaking during a Fox News town hall, Trump pointed to New York City’s experience with the policy, saying it worked “incredibly well”.
“I would do stop-and-frisk”, Trump said. “We did it in NY and it worked incredibly well, and you have to be proactive”.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected the claim on Thursday, warning Trump against embracing a tactic that would worsen relations between police and the minority community.
“One of the things I’d do”, he said Wednesday, when asked how he’d reduce violence in black communities, “is I would do stop-and-frisk”.
Trump also raised eyebrows Wednesday when he seemed to call for the national expansion of “stop-and-frisk”, a police tactic that has been condemned as racial profiling.
JOHN YANG: He said his tough law and order agenda, which now includes backing stop and frisk, a practice a federal judge said discriminated against minorities, would benefit black Americans.
In addition to his praise for stop-and-frisk, Trump has also drawn the ire of some African-Americans in painting a grim portrait of black poverty. “You have to do something. It can’t continue the way it’s going”. However, even former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton has acknowledged that stop-and-frisk does not significantly impact the crime rate.
“I mean, the numbers were unbelievably changed”, he said Thursday. We ended that unconstitutional use of stop and frisk. But according to a report by the New York Civil Liberties Union, in more than 5 million stops, police recovered a gun less than 0.02 percent of the time.
Trump was asked to explain the pros and cons of the controversial police practice. “If they are on the sidewalk and not doing anything, we can not just roll up on ’em and say, ‘What are you guys doing?'”
Trump made the remarks as hundreds of demonstrators in North Carolina’s most populous city kicked off a third night of protests following the fatal police shooting Tuesday of Keith Lamont Scott.
“Chicago, where you had 3,000 shootings so far this – 3,000 from January 1st – and obviously you can’t let the system go the way it’s going”.
SEN. TIM KAINE (D-Va), Vice Presidential Nominee: Where we see challenges all over the country, challenges of gulfs and gaps that exist between communities and law enforcement, we have got to put them on the table.
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‘Chicago is out of control, ‘ Trump noted, though reminded viewers that his hometown of NY has been there before.
