Stop and Frisk is controversial, and I have written about it here now and again, but since it has begun to take on a national audience, more and more people outside the NYC area have become curious about one of the NYPD's more questionable policies.
What is it exactly?
The situation in which a police officer who is suspicious of an
individual detains the person and runs his hands lightly over the
suspect's outer garments to determine if the person is carrying a
concealed weapon.
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I got this from:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Stop+and+Frisk...and contrary to popular belief, that's about it. people can go ON and ON about how it ruthlessly targets minorities, etc. etc. etc...but I am not here to debate that. (Of course, if every single person in a particular precinct is considered a minority...how is that possible?) What I am here to talk about is a four-year-old boy who was shot in the South Bronx Saturday night.
This from the New York Times:
It was a moment that divided a mother’s life into before and after. One
minute, Shianne Norman’s 4-year-old boy gleefully whirled around a Bronx
playground among a group of other children. The next, he lay in a heap
on the ground as blood seeped from a gunshot wound to his head, and a
life of promise drained away amid screams and chaos.
This from the NY Daily News:
A 4-year-old boy died after he took a bullet in the head during a wild
shootout on a Bronx basketball court Sunday night, cops and witnesses
said.
Two men were also wounded in the gunfire that erupted during a hoops
tournament at an E. 165th St. court in Morrisania about 9:40 p.m.,
police said.
The slain child was identified as Lloyd Morgan. An observer who said
she was a friend of Morgan's family said mothers began searching the
courts for their children when the guns finally silenced.
“When my friend didn’t see her kid, she panicked,” said the woman. “Then she saw him on the floor, shot.”
I understand that there are many people that will not go along with my
decision to support the Stop and Frisk Policy but if the Stop and Frisk
policy can make a difference, then we need to realize that it’s time to
support Stop and Frisk, and that a life such as little Lloyd Morgan is
worth more than anyone feeling discomfort by being stopped and searched
by the police.
About time, Sir. And it's looooooong overdue.
The senseless irony? This little tournament was organized to honor the life of an 18-year-old girl who was stabbed to death near the same playground in July 2010.
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