A report just released by a Columbia Law School professor shows that an overwhelming number of street stops in the New York Police Department’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ initiative have been unjustifiable. The report indicates that police had no mitigating factors for these stops other than the fact that the area they were patrolling is considered ‘high crime’. These areas are also mainly populated with Black folks.
It’s easy to say that the police are simply doing their jobs except we also get the news report that the murder rate in NYC is skyrocketing. So who are these police stopping and frisking since it obviously isn’t the bad guys who are hell bent on killing people? The police are busy frisking the kids with sagging pants. No Morehouse to that disclosure, just in case. Kids who wear their pants below their underwear are labeled as criminals meanwhile it’s the criminals who are keeping their pants up to hide their semi-automatic handguns.
I agree that it’s unfair to profile saggy pants kids as thugs just because you disagree with their sartorial style and their musical tastes especially when there has to be some murderers out there listening to the best of Kenny G’s jazz standards and wearing gabardine trousers. So as a public service for anyone out there reading DP.com and living in a Black, er ‘high crime’ neighborhood I am offering the five things you should do when stopped on the street by police…
1) Place Your Hands Where Their Eyes Can See (thank you Bussa Bus)
2) Speak slowly (retards are rarely arrested)
3) Where your pants above your waist (see #2)
4) Us the word ‘sir’ even when the officer is a female
5) Don’t be Black
