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Originally Posted by kane
While there is a legit debate to be had about trade tariffs (there are a lot of people smarter than me who say Trump doing this would be terrible for the country as a whole and not really save jobs), stop and frisk is a horrible idea. Not only is is likely unconstitutional, it has yet to be shown to really work (there are plenty of stats that showed crime was going down in NY before they even started stop and frisk). I don't want to live in a country where a cop can just stop me and frisk me simply because he feels like it or thinks I look a certain way. Fuck that!. Helping to bring jobs into those neighborhoods and improving education so the kids can see that there is a future out there for them is how to fix many of the problems in these high crime communities. If you thought there was tension between the police and some black communities now, just wait until they start randomly stopping and frisking people. It will cause chaos.
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Trade tariffs would raise a lot of taxes, make imported goods more expensive. The people telling you they're a bad thing are the pro-globalisation lobby funded by the rich.
Stop and frisk has reduced crime in more than NY. The problem is the crimes are committed in areas of poverty which are also areas of ethnic minorities, so the PC crowd hate it. I wouldn't want to live in an area where people are free to carry guns.
Yes bringing jobs back to the poor will reduce crime. Start by taxing imports from companies who are removing jobs from those areas.
The only chaos it will create is among those who are likely to be found to be carrying guns. Stirred up by the PC crowd. The people who live in areas of high crime are black and Hispanic. They need their community to be safer by making it harder to carry a weapon. I've been stopped and frisked many times because I once fitted the wrong profile. But I see you assume it will be black people rioting.