Raymond Kelly
Over the weekend NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly upped the ante with assertions that Stop and Frisk is needed now more than ever..He along with Mayor Bloomberg are appealing last week’s historic ruling which demanded the practice be modified and monitored.
Kelly also maintained his claim that Stop and Frisk was saving lives in Black and Brown communities. This is in spite of overwhelming evidence showing that people in those communities don’t want it.
Raymond Kelly also rejected the idea of police wearing cameras claiming that they would raise more questions than answer. He cited examples like domestic disputes and getting confidential information from informants as to whether or not officers should use cameras.
Kelly’s assertions were disputed by Noel Leader who is the co-founder of 100 Black Officers Who Care.. He appeared on the NY based TV Show Here and Now and talked about the outrage many are feeling around what he described as ‘illegal’ stop and frisk. He also rejected the notion that police wearing body cameras would be a hinderance as suggested by Kelly.
It was pointed out by former police Captain Reginald Lyles who is also African-American here in Oakland, California, that the logic being used Kelly and Bloomberg is similar to the logic used to lock up American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.. He called it Apartheid logic..I definitely have to agree with perspective..
Check out the segment below featuring Leader and longtime activist Erica Ford..
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=9208430
Although Leader didn’t get into this aspect too much other members of his organization have spoken out about how they themselves as Black and Brown police officers are frequently stopped and harassed by fellow officers.. This was highlighted last year in the Village Voice in an article called Cops By Day, Targets by Night.
LAPD Chief William H Parker
It doesn’t take much to understand what Commissioner Kelly and Bloomberg are ultimately trying to do with this policy. It’s to make sure that people from targeted communities, no matter who they are frightened by the police. It’s a throwback to the bad ole days of policing in Los Angeles under Chief William Parker who militarized the police force and had a policy of making sure officers made contact with Black teens so they would know early on, who was in charge of the city. His policies were adopted by police departments all over the country. They were enhanced by his successor Chief Darryl Gates. Below is a brief documentary on Parker so folks can better understand some of this invasive policing action under the heading Stop and Frisk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2yFsx5vCLU
In closing we wanna give a shout out to another Hip Hop artists who has stepped up to use his talent to bring attention to Stop and Frisk…Most of us know about 10 Frisk Commandments from Jasiri X and Elon James.. Below is an incredible song and video from NY based artist Awkword who gives us an up close and personal view of what Stop and Frisk is like..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RtncRj4yUc&hd=1
We also have a joint from Bronx based Rebel Diaz called Stop Stop and Frisk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-duTrV9hSg
It is what it is
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Stop and Frisk is a system developed and tested over the years by the apartheid state of Israel. This is the system used against the Palestinians. The Israelis stop and frisk thousands of Palestinians at check points across the West Bank and Israel every day. Mayor Bloomberg and many Jewish politicians in N.Y. city know exactly where it came from. It makes it possible for Whites and Jews to walk the streets freely why African American, Palestinians, Hispanics and people of color are under constant harassment and assault. This is the same old white supremacist system that was in force in South Africa and the U.S. That is where the Israelis got it from.