To: Detroit Police Department
Stop-and-frisk the Koch Brothers, not Detroit!
Detroiters have already had their democratically-elected government stripped away from them by an emergency financial manager and now it seems the powers that be want to take away any semblance of civil liberties left in the city by pushing for a stop-and-frisk policy promoted by the Koch Brother-funded Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Why is this important?
Stop-and-frisk won’t likely be used on the young professionals downtown or the hipsters that are moving into the city. And does anyone honestly think that the DPD will be stop-and-frisking Lions, Tigers or Red Wings fans on game day? No - it will be the working class black and latino communities that will be the target of these types of unconstitutional discrimination and searches.
The Manhattan Institute helped develop New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk program. That program has only yielded three results: it’s ineffective, it leads to racial profiling of blacks and latinos and it was recently ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. The worst part? While retirees worry Kevyn Orr is on his way to gutting their pensions, the Detroit Police Department is paying consultants more than $600,000 to advise them on implementing stop-and-frisk.
Seriously? If anyone needs to be subject to random stop-and-frisks, it’s the Koch Brothers.
The Manhattan Institute helped develop New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk program. That program has only yielded three results: it’s ineffective, it leads to racial profiling of blacks and latinos and it was recently ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. The worst part? While retirees worry Kevyn Orr is on his way to gutting their pensions, the Detroit Police Department is paying consultants more than $600,000 to advise them on implementing stop-and-frisk.
Seriously? If anyone needs to be subject to random stop-and-frisks, it’s the Koch Brothers.