2009/10/08

My Way News - Police stop more than 1 million people on street
My Way News reports: "Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year - a sharply higher number than just a few years ago. Most are black and Hispanic men. Many are frisked, and nearly all are innocent of any crime, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press."

Comment: Welcome to police-state America. I wish we could go back to the good-old-days when the criminals committed the crimes and the police caught them. Now the police harass citizens before the crimes are committed...and apparently it's legal. Has it ever occurred to anyone that if you are not free to commit a crime then you are not free? This is why God gave humans free will. Freedom means you can do the the right thing, or not. If you combine this stop-and-frisk policy with the UK's CCTV cameras it would be possible to deter a great amount of street crime, but at what cost? Would you rather live free in an unsafe world, or not free in a safe crime-free world? This is the question confronting citizens in the West, a West that used to value freedom and liberty above all else. Public safety is not an end that justifies any means. Just remember, there is no "Right to be Safe" in the U.S. Constitution.

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