I must be a small thinker when it comes to population safety, control, etc. Because I was reading this Yahoo News article between reading the Health Care Bill [I'm reading it slowly because I'm waiting for some action on our Government's part... if it gets amended/modified before I complete my paper, I have to edit quickly].. Anyway, the article states that NY City police pat down around 600,000 people a year.
Some quick math, and you get close to 1.2 people per minute being frisked every minute of every year, without any breaks, and only a handful of those end up with criminal charges being pressed. I suppose if you whack me on the back each day when I walk into the office, at some point, my tolerance will grow and I won’t care? *shrug*
BTW… the friendly neighborhood lawyer says that stop and frisk policies have been upheld for many years. Crime rates have gone down because of them. I wish you could pat someone down for crazy, because when an honor student gets killed for walking to close to a mob brawl, somewhere there is a policy going in the wrong direction.