Donald Trump to Propose Nationwide Stop-and-Frisk Tonight on Hannity

Tonight Fox News will be airing a town hall meeting put on by Donald Trump in Cleveland, where he is purportedly attempting to appeal to African-American voters, who are now swinging toward Hillary Clinton in massive poll numbers. Now, we had a very good mayor, but New York City was incredible, the way that worked. “I see what’s going on in Chicago, I think stop and frisk”. “It worked incredibly well, and you have to be proactive and – you know – you really help people sort of change their mind automatically”.

“I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago, I think stop-and-frisk”. According to the ruling, the department carried out searches in a “racially discriminatory manner” and disregarded individuals’ right to privacy, and the judge ordered remedies and a federal monitor to oversee the department.

The number of stops in NY are projected to fall to around 20,000 this year, from a high of 685,700 in 2011 – a 97% drop. Approximately 10 percent of those stopped were arrested or ticketed.

The policy, once used by many police departments, gained traction in NY under two former mayors, Rudolph W. Giuliani, now a top Trump surrogate, and Michael R. Bloomberg, now a fierce Trump critic.

A November 2013 report from the NY attorney general revealed just 3% of stop-and-frisk stops led to convictions between 2009 and 2012.

During the more than ten years with the policy in place, shootings and murders did not decline. His proposal to implement stop and frisk on a federal level was in response to an audience member, who asked the self-described billionaire what he would do to address black-on-black crime.

Shortly after taking office in 2014, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), an outspoken critic of the practice, announced he was ending a legal battle over “stop-and-frisk”, leading to the appointment of a court-appointed monitor to oversee the NYPD’s reform of the policy.

“I would do stop-and-frisk”, Trump said. He cares about reducing his unfavorable numbers in the suburbs of Philadelphia: While black New Yorkers opposed stop-and-frisk in 2013, 60 percent of white ones thought the tactic sounded pretty great.

Today’s comments are not the first time that the republican nominee has come out in favor of stop-and-frisk.

In April, Hillary Clinton said while campaigning that evidence for “stop-and-frisk” police tactics “doesn’t hold up under scrutiny”, although she did not go so far as calling for an end to the practice entirely.