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Re:Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpo... by NotANaN on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:30PM (#19110954)
> We don’t arbitrarily stop every single person to ferret them out.

This is NYC we're talking about. Stop-and-Frisk was a fun game the cops played for years.

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Re:Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpo... by function_seven on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:36PM (#19110999)
Oh for sure. Terry stops were (are?) massively abused in that city.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_C...

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Re:Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpo... by User23 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:36PM (#19110994)
It's interesting how effectively propaganda has convinced people that searching known felons for illegal weapons isn't a "common sense gun law."

Edit: Case in point.

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Re:Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpo... by function_seven on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:38PM (#19111010)
Stop-and-frisk had little to do with felony status. It was your black-and-young-and-male status that would trigger a search.
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