To graphically illustrate how unbearably intrusive 24X
as many stop-and-frisks per reported crime in New York
City has become (4X less crime achieved by former
mayors followed by 6X as many stops begun with the
current mayor) innocent victims should generate shadow
reports (mirroring cops’ reports cops) for every stop
-- copies of which to be snail mailed -- as in paper
form -- to your city council person or, if you don’t
know who he or she is, to the speaker of the city
council and to selected media outlets, etc.
This could potentially
to generate over 2000 shadow reports daily – multiplied
by any number of persons you wish to snail mail them
to – potentially millions of shadow reports a
year swamping mail rooms (700,000 stops a year
multiplied by however many copies).
If a victim is
reluctant to go to the trouble of making out a paper
report, neighbors or an advocacy organization may
offer help (doing with other people is motivating –
why they have walks to raise research money for
cancer, etc.).
Ideally, advocacy
groups would create a standard shadow stop report form
and pass out copies to be copied – listing whatever
particulars on the front and perhaps listing useful
snail mail addresses to on the back.
Jump start the shadow
report blizzard by inviting everyone who has been
stopped for no reason in the past to submit their
shadow reports now – potentially millions at once.
Might add utility to
post intruding cops’ names and numbers on a
stopped-by-so-and-so web site to make stoppers feel
just a little bit as uncomfortable as they make us
feel.
Graphically wake the
world to just how maddening Mad Mayor Bloomberg’s
stop-and-frisk (ethnic/low income-cleansing?) really
is – by reporting each and every intrusion to as many
listeners as possible. It only costs a
stamp -- to prove the pen is mightier than the sword.
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