Originally Posted by kane

So you think cops going into neighborhoods that are already very anti-cop (for right or wrong reasons) and randomly stopping and frisking people is going to help that neighborhood feel better and want to work with the police?

Also, do you want to live in a country where you can be walking down the street, minding your own business, and be stopped, frisked, and questioned for no reason?

I don't.


Can you point out where it has worked? What I have read pretty much says that crime rates were going down before stop and frisk was put in place and they continued to go down after it was stopped being used.

Here is an interesting piece on that using data from New York.