A federal judge in New York has just ruled that stop and frisk, which has created, through essentially random searches and police harassment, some semblance of order in New York City, is unconstitutional. Before stop and frisk, New York was plagued with record high murders and street crime. Mayor Rudy Giuliani turned things around through aggressive policing that targeted mainly black and Hispanic young men, who comprise the majority of criminal offenders in the city. The result was a couple decades of police-enforced safety that allowed the Sex and the City, hipster and other whitopia cultures to flourish on the streets of New York.
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