Stop-and-frisk has removed thousands of guns from the city’s streets — but the NYPD detained millions of innocent New Yorkers to find them
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A Columbia law professor testified Wednesday that just one gun was recovered for every thousand people stopped from 2004 through June 30, 2012.
“The NYPD hit rate is far less than what you would achieve by chance,” Jeffrey Fagan said in Manhattan Federal Court.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Stop-And-Frisk Deemed Failed Policing Policy, Though It Is A Fantastic Control Policy
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Yes, much of it's about control of physical space in the city, so that "unworthy" populations are kept out/penned in, with the ultimate intention of driving them out altogether.
ReplyDeleteRight now, after having let the projects become dangerously run-down, Bloomberg's Housing Authority is going to privatize parks, playgrounds and open space in them, leasing it out long term to developers. Needless to say, it's starting in projects located in now-gentrified areas. And charter celebrity Geoffrey Canada was among the first to get into the action: he's taking over space in the St. Nicolas Houses in Harlem.
While things are in Free Market Fundamentalist hyper-drive and hyper-repression under Bloomberg, our first neoliberal mayor, Ed Koch, said thirty years ago that no one had a right to remain in the city.
The Overclass intends for that to continue, no matter who the next mayor is. God (or Mammon) forbid that the tourist/ FIRE/ hipster/plutocrat New York of today have its bubble burst by reality.
So sad to see Ed Koch join Donald Manes and Meade Esposito in the aftelife.
DeleteBet they're cooking up a scheme to rig the bidding the cable lines in Hell right now.