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No. The big question is whether we want to live in a society that requires the police to randomly stop and frisk people in order to stop crime. There is crime,
by zo1 3y ago
No. The big question is whether we want to live in a society that requires the police to randomly stop and frisk people in order to stop crime. There is crime, I don't think anyone can dispute that.
Honestly, I personally have no problem with criminal-looking individuals being stopped and frisked in high-crime areas. And I say this as someone that's been profiled as a white person in a black country, and held at gunpoint by assault-rifle wielding police.
- sandworm101 3y agoAnd if stop-and-frisk is extended to vehicles? Would America tolerate cops randomly pulling over cars that looked "criminal"? Or we could take it a step further and just randomly search homes.
- banannaise 3y ago> Would America tolerate cops randomly pulling over cars that looked "criminal"? Sadly, it already does. The pretext stop is a core element of highway patrol, and policing in general.
- j33zusjuice 3y agoSure, it could be a slippery slope, but the problem is that no one can strictly define what “criminal-looking” means. That term is often used synonymously with “urban style,” which means “black people, and others who dress like black people.” If stop and frisk were started in the rural south and had this loose “criminal-looking” definition applied to it, all those MFers would get stopped every day for being skinny, having shitty teeth, etc. The point being that criminals look exactly like normal, non-criminal people.
- Incipient 3y agoBut can't you define everything as a slippery slope? If we allow cops to arrest people for discharging a firearm in public, next they'll arrest people for simply pulling a gun in public...then eventually just having a gun in public!
- j33zusjuice 3y agoStrictly define criminal-looking.