Os Cangaceiros
2nd August 2013, 02:05
Criticisms have swirled around NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly''s record on the "stop and frisk" practice, particularly since Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested him for Homeland Security secretary last week and Pres. Obama spoke supportively. Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic penned "Prominent Democrats Are Now Comfortable With Racial and Ethnic Profiling (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/prominent-democrats-are-now-comfortable-with-racial-and-ethnic-profiling/277900/)," asking "How else can one interpret President Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer saying that the NYPD's Ray Kelly would make a good secretary of Homeland Security?" In Reason's July issue (published before the president's comment), Jacob Sullum makes a case (http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/24/when-policing-becomes-harassment) that the stop and frisk program constitutes harassment and is unconstitutional. An interview by Jennifer Gonnerman with the admittedly disgruntled ex-NYPD officer Pedro Serrano published last May in New York magazine paints a picture of New York stop and frisks as corrupt or even criminal.
Kelly for his part has doubled down, claiming in a Wall Street Journal editorial (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324448104578616333588719320.html) that the stop and frisk practice is part of good policing, a reason for New York City's dropping crime rate which has saved "7,383 lives," most of them young men of color. But Alex Pareene has provided a point-by-point rebuttal (http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/kelly_stop_and_frisk_and_muslim_surveillance_are_w onderful/) to the Kelly piece in Salon.com. And MSNBC "Morning Joe" co host Mika Brzezinski pushed back on the claim in an interview with Kelly yesterday, pointing out "... the numbers... show that the people who are stopped and frisked are primarily minorities and primarily end up to be found doing nothing wrong. So one of the arguments would be that going up to people who are doing nothing wrong is not stopping crime -- it's breeding resentment and playing a dangerous game of profiling that could explode at some point." (Quote via Mediaite (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nypds-ray-kelly-defends-essential-stop-and-frisk-on-morning-joe-you-cant-police-without-it/) and Mike Riggs (http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/23/ray-kelly-says-that-the-nypd-has-never-s).) A "room for debate" collection in The New York Times yesterday offers opinions on both sides of the Kelly question (http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/07/22/ray-kelly-secretary-of-homeland-security).
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Kelly for his part has doubled down, claiming in a Wall Street Journal editorial (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324448104578616333588719320.html) that the stop and frisk practice is part of good policing, a reason for New York City's dropping crime rate which has saved "7,383 lives," most of them young men of color. But Alex Pareene has provided a point-by-point rebuttal (http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/kelly_stop_and_frisk_and_muslim_surveillance_are_w onderful/) to the Kelly piece in Salon.com. And MSNBC "Morning Joe" co host Mika Brzezinski pushed back on the claim in an interview with Kelly yesterday, pointing out "... the numbers... show that the people who are stopped and frisked are primarily minorities and primarily end up to be found doing nothing wrong. So one of the arguments would be that going up to people who are doing nothing wrong is not stopping crime -- it's breeding resentment and playing a dangerous game of profiling that could explode at some point." (Quote via Mediaite (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nypds-ray-kelly-defends-essential-stop-and-frisk-on-morning-joe-you-cant-police-without-it/) and Mike Riggs (http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/23/ray-kelly-says-that-the-nypd-has-never-s).) A "room for debate" collection in The New York Times yesterday offers opinions on both sides of the Kelly question (http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/07/22/ray-kelly-secretary-of-homeland-security).
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