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New York’s Stop and Frisk Mess, the Case and its Cause, Cost and Cure

New York, NY —This is all about balancing freedom and liberty with the needs of public safety and using propaganda to frighten Americans.  Today millions of Americans really believe that the rights to keep and carry firearms and to be free from unreasonable searches will kill us all.  Let me challenge anyone to show us where, Congress or the President has the power to exchange our freedoms within the Bill of Rights for public safety.    Every despot,  fascist and  despotic ruler that ever existed promised the population safety through freedom restrictions.  Those that advocate trading hard won freedoms for the illusion of safety are woefully ignorant of history.  Our prisons are a perfect example that demonstrates that the trade does not work.  Prisoners have zero freedom and are constantly searched and observed yet inmates have drugs, weapons and routinely beat, rape and murder each other. If taking freedom in prison does no...