You can legally refuse a subway bag search, leave and enter the subway through another entrance. I've done so a few times, and the officers just roll their eyes and act like you're being unreasonable.
Stop and Frisk was a TERRIBLE rights violation though and we should never bring it back.
I'm not acting like anything. Stop and Frisk as a policy of NYC was ended by the last mayor. I believe I describe it as "a TERRIBLE rights violation". Why would you think I'm minimizing anything similar?
I'm pretty familiar with those numbers, I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
In so far as that arrest disparity is above and beyond the difference in 911 call volume, it needs serious scrutiny. We absolutely need to keep reforming the way we do policing here. We have a serious problem of simultaneously over and under policing some neighborhoods. I don't have much faith in Adams on this, but I think public sentiment has shifted a lot in the last 3 years, so hopefully some progress can be made.
They have though. The NYT article points out that stops and arrests are WAY down, and we’ve done away with cash bail for a lot of offenses. Those are. If material differences, real progress.
You can legally refuse a subway bag search, leave and enter the subway through another entrance. I've done so a few times, and the officers just roll their eyes and act like you're being unreasonable.
Stop and Frisk was a TERRIBLE rights violation though and we should never bring it back.