Watch NY Times' Charles Blow Explain Problems With Trump’s Advocacy Of Nationwide Stop-And-Frisk Policy
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow explained the overt race-based elements of the ineffective stop-and-frisk policy advocated by GOP nominee Donald Trump to curb black violence.
During a town hall hosted by conservative radio show host and television personality Sean Hannity the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump advocated implementing a nationwide stop-and-frisk policy to quell the violence in the black community.
While stop-and-frisk has been lauded by the conservative media, it has proven ineffective in actually stopping crime and its use in New York City was deemed unconstitutional. According to the Washington Post, there is no evidence stop-and-frisk reduced crime. And in 2013, a federal judge deemed the overt racial stop-and-frisk practices in New York City unconstitutional based on"at least 200,000 stops were made without reasonable suspicion.”
New York Times columnist and CNN political commentator Charles Blow highlighted host stop-and-frisk was used as a race-based “intimidation tool” that “functioned as a kind of ethnic cleaning mechanism” in the cities that used it. From the September 21 edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360: