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And 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 furth

• 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 ago
  Sure, 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 ago
    But 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!