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7,257 out of 381,948... wow. With a success rate as abysmal as that, it is a wonder that we still take a police officers "gut instinct" as seriously as we do.
by jlgreco 14y ago
7,257 out of 381,948... wow. With a success rate as abysmal as that, it is a wonder that we still take a police officers "gut instinct" as seriously as we do.
- tsaoutourpants 14y agoMost of the rest of those 382K searches weren't victims of mistaken "gut instinct" but rather officers knowingly searching them without cause. NYPD pressures its street cops to perform these searches using quotas (which they refuse to call quotas).