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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

And across the street at Angelo's Pizza, people are sprinkling half a jar of grated parmesan cheese on their slice of pepperoni pizza. And Bloomberg is fine with that too.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

And across the street at Angelo's Pizza, people are sprinkling half a jar of grated parmesan cheese on their slice of pepperoni pizza. And Bloomberg is fine with that too.

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To quote John Dingel - " It takes a long time... to control the people "


They know they can't do it all at once. Social engineering takes patience.

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The lawsuit is one of three pending federal cases that involve the New York Police Department's stop, question and frisk practice, championed by police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a necessary crime-fighting measure that has helped the nation's biggest city reach historically low crime rates in recent years. There were only 414 killings citywide last year, compared with 2,245 in 1990.

Kelly has called the practice a lifesaving tool that deters criminals from taking illegal weapons in public. Bloomberg invoked the toll of gun violence to defend the practice in his last State of the City address.

But with the steady uptick in the number of people stopped has come an increased chorus of complaints, including some from people who say they've been targeted because of their race. Last year, New York police stopped 533,042 people, more than five times the number in 2002. Fifty-five percent of those stopped were black, 32 percent were Hispanic and 10 percent were white. According to U.S. Census figures, there are 8.2 million people in the city: 26 percent are black, 28 percent are Hispanic and 44 percent are white.

The Clean Halls lawsuit was filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Bronx Defenders on behalf of Ligon and others who live in South Bronx apartment buildings enrolled in the program.

Another plaintiff, Abdullah Turner, who's black, said he was waiting for a friend who was returning a sweater inside a Bronx building when an officer slapped his cellphone out of his hand and demanded to know what he was doing outside. Turner, 25, said he was arrested on a trespassing charge, which was dropped nearly six months later.

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