Police stop more than 1 million people on street

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Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year - a sharply higher number than just a few years ago. Most are black and Hispanic men. Many are frisked, and nearly all are innocent of any crime, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press.

@sheepy Said

Not really though.

Would you rather they didn't stop and search, and all sorts of crimes went ahead.

As for the oft whinged about fact that more of one racial group is stopped than another, well duhhh, more crimes happen in areas where there's more of a certain type of racial background people living - this is an inescapable fact, it's to do with poverty and gangs etc.

Course, we could always move police resources out to the suburbs and stop some "WASP" 60 year old women to even out the racial quotas if it becomes a political need

@Ellen Said

I would rather the police not stop and hassle anybody unless they have probable cause.

@lindasue1718 Said

I would rather them arrest the ones they come across that have warrants or drugs or illegal weapons on them. Thats a few more criminals off the streets(and a safer community) and if an innocent person is stopped Id rather them have the "inconvenience" of it all as opposed to not having any of these criminals picked up.