You Got Problems. Joe Doakes Has Answers.
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Chicago PD needs to get guns off the streets of those neighborhoods. You know what would get guns off the streets? Stop-and-frisk. Don’t even bother to arrest the people in possession – that raises all the Fourth Amendment defenses and exacerbates racial disparity in convictions – just take the guns from people who shouldn’t be carrying them, and auction the guns to lawful buyers to fund midnight basketball programs. Who could possibly object to that?
Joe Doakes
No rational person.
But then, I’m tacitly repeating myself, here.
June 19th, 2018 at 8:45 am
There are solid, rational objections to stop and frisk that can be articulated
June 20th, 2018 at 9:55 am
There are? Care to articulate any?
June 20th, 2018 at 11:47 am
Its of dubious constitutionality, such that it withstands constitutional scrutiny sometimes.
As a practical matter there’s no reason to force police contact on people who haven’t done anything when, ya know, we have abysmal policing in this country and things can go bad in police / citizen contacts for almost no reason.
So yeah, rational reasons can be articulated.