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• [1] Larry from Brooklyn May 07, 2008 - 10:41AM

  What is most disturbing is that their would not even any notice of this issue if Leonardo Blair was not a graduate with Masters from Columbia university and a reporter from the NY Post. An ordinary person would never get this kind of attention.

  
  
• [2] CJP from 11211 May 07, 2008 - 10:42AM

  Maybe someone should look into the fact that the NYPD views StopQuestionFrisk as required activity just as it views parking tickets or moving violation tickets. If a cop is low on SQF activity, they will be told to step it up. Thus cops, especially Impact rookies, often indiscrimantly stop people just to bump up their activity.

  
  
• [3] Chris O from New York May 07, 2008 - 10:42AM

  I received a summons for "failure to obey a lawful order." I was not arrested but it was completely bogus. I fear that this "failure to obey" has become a catchall and is being abused massively to arrest and ticket people. Can the NYCLU comment on this? Thanks.

  P.S. I am white, the cretin cop was Asian American.

  
  
• [4] Joan Rosenfelt from New York May 07, 2008 - 10:55AM

  NOT FOR PUBLICATION:

  PERSONAL NOTE TO RICHARD ABORN:

  HELLO!!! Pleased to hear you on WNYC!

  Warmest regards from your grammar school classmate - (Oak Hill School - Newton Centre, Massachusetts):

  Joan Rosenfelt

  New York

  (JoanCelia@Earthlink.Net)

  
  
• [5] Amy from Manhattan May 07, 2008 - 11:00AM

  Why are stop-&-frisks Constitutional at all when--as is obvious in so many of these cases--they're done without the probable cause required by the 4th Amendment?

  
  
• [6] kissel May 07, 2008 - 11:11AM

  We need to get off this PC garbage. If the majority of the crimes are committed by a certain group of people, it makes sense that they would be the ones being stopped. Enough already, it all stems back to a growing sense of entitlement by certain groups.

  
  
• [7] Ij May 07, 2008 - 11:33AM

  Like whites aren't born into a sense of entitlement. Please open your mind and speak of what you know, not what you hear.

  
  
• [8] Bob from New Haven CT May 07, 2008 - 02:22PM

  Yes....we want lower crime. Less drug trafficing, prostitution..etc. However, for once...for just once... I would like to hear that our NYC crime fighting crusaders have gone "undercover" and infiltrated some investment bank or hedge fund who's employees are swimming in $$$$$$ and spending it on coke, escorts etc. Back in the 90's while Gulliani was cracking the heads of street corner pot dealers, it not uncommon to read on the "style" section that life at a dot com start-up was one long nose candy lost weekend. Do the math. There simply is not enough $$$ in the "inner city" to support the enormous organized crime network / business model that supports the lion's share of cocaine / vice commerce. I recent undercover bust operation at a university in San Diego netted 75 dealers and customers. Inner city "steet level" drug commerce, while perhaps associated with more violence, is, I believe, small potatoes compared with what goes on in NYC above the 15th floor.

  
  
• [9] World's Toughest Milkman from the_C_train May 08, 2008 - 07:10PM

  Sorry have to agree with kissel, everyone is tripping over themselves to out PC the other.

  Listening to this guy in the first minutes of his description it's obvious that he was angry at being "ordered" by the police, something more happened that he's not relaying. Brian thanks for alluding to the facts and the NYCLU's BS "whitewash" of police procedure. The ACLU and the NYCLU are pathetic as they defend NAMBLA and other shitbags.