Trump on stop-and-frisk

“Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in NY because it largely singled out black and Hispanic men”, Holt said.

Donald Trump says the police tactic known as stop-and-frisk led to a drop in murders in New York City, while Hillary Clinton says it has been ruled unconstitutional.

New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, was quick to denounce the defense of stop-and-frisk, too. Getting the public sidetracked over whether Obama was born in Kenya was part of an atmosphere to embolden racists and make them comfortable in their white supremacy.

In the presidential debate on Monday night, Republican nominee Donald Trump claimed that stop-and-frisk policies “worked very well”. Five hundred murders is a lot of murders. “It’s hard to believe, 500 is like supposed to be good?” And it was terminated by our current mayor.

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who served as NYPD commissioner under the administration of Rudy Giuliani, an outspoken support of Trump, defended the use of stop-and-frisk. It had a very big impact.

CLINTON: “Independent experts have looked at what I’ve proposed and looked at what Donald’s proposed, and basically they’ve said this, that if his tax plan.were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession”. Dead wrong. Hillary Clinton said the same thing.

Is NRA-backed Donald Trump going anti-gun? Year-to-date crime as of mid-September was at 78,201 in 2013; 75,916 in 2014; 73,985 in 2015; and 72,008 in 2016, according to Compstat. And a NYPD spokesman rejected Trump’s statement via Twitter during the debate.

Were Trump’s pronouncements about crime in cities correct?

The data, which cover the period between September 12 and September 18, 2016, compare various crimes, including murder, over a series of time frames.

In truth, this is actually a mixed bag. He has pointed to sharp increases in violent crime in cities such as Chicago, which he has described as “more dangerous” than Afghanistan.

While crimes like murder and robbery decreased over that period, assaults increased and the number of rapes remained virtually unchanged. Under Dinkins, homicides dropped 15 percent from 2,262 in 1990 to 1,927 by the end of 1993. In total, 417 people reported being the victims of violent crimes compared to 340 in the prior nine months.

Pence said the surveillance method “literally saved lives” in New York City. “No one argues these facts”.

Despite a almost 97% reduction in stops, the number of crimes between 2011 and 2015 barely changed. But major crime continued to drop a year ago, although homicides, rapes and robberies rose slightly.

The first of four debates for the 2016 Election, three Presidential and one Vice Presidential, is moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt.

Trump was wrong to say the suit was brought against many real estate developers – it was specific to buildings rented by his father and him.

In 2002, when Bloomberg – still a firm believer in stop-and-frisk’s ability to “keep NY safe” – first took office, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 97,296 times, according to the NYCLU.

Ms. Clinton, the former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator from NY, has not addressed Mr. Trump’s latest salvo. Are homicides down in NY? Doesn’t Trump know that #BlueLivesMatter, especially in conservative states like Louisiana?

On the day Clinton was confirmed as secretary, David Albright, a former chief United Nations weapons inspector, wrote that “Iran appears to need at least another few months to accumulate enough low-enriched uranium to have a break-out capability”. Follow up on that.