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.
I would love to declare a contest prize of million dollars to anyone who could propose A REALISTIC answer to most of America's economic and social cancers ("cancers" is not too strong a word at this point) that did not include legally mandated, sector-wide labor agreements -- just to make the very vivid point that there is no other realistic way out.
The -- innate -- behavioral block that prevents even the most momentary consideration any new direction in economic policy in human males (hunting pack imperative?) to refuse to think through any new policy direction on MERIT ALONE if it is too different than what society is doing already -- have to see all the wheels within wheels working together in one second or wont consider it for a single second.
Tragic case in point: human males will not consider the efficacy of legally mandated, sector-wide labor agreements as the cure for most all of America's economic and social cancers -- as the only possible cure or at least the only practical cure anyone has ever thought of -- not to mention tried and tested in the first world (Germany, France, etc.), second world (Argentina), third world (Indonesia) -- not to mention for as long as 60+ years.
Instituted by post WWII industrialists (not Marxists or left wingers) to limit labor's race to the top, it works just as wonderfully to limit labor's race to the bottom -- and -- keep the political muscle of the average person in heavy lifting shape.
Human females are capable of evaluating any idea on MERIT ALONE (individual gatherers imperative; shoppers) -- and then, if it seems practical, actually believing they can sell the idea to others on merit alone.