Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
The problem in NYC is the police. They are extremely aggressive, especially in certain areas. This is where statistics get skewed. I saw a report on the news last night that that last year the NYCPD made over 700,000 "stop and frisk" searches last year, up from under 100K in the first year of Mayor (bloomberg)Cocteau's regime. They have stopped and frisked almost 10% of their population. They are aggressive, pushed by a police state mentality to be so, and then wonder why people have an attitude about them.
I don't know if this is true or not in Chicago. I do know that at least part of the problem is that gang members have guns that are as powerful or more so than the ones the police have. An Illinois state trooper stopped a car on the Kennedy Expressway on suspicion of DUI and the driver assaulted the trooper, which required him to go to the hospital. A police officer in northwest Indiana died a couple of months ago when he went to check on a person who was squatting in a supposedly vacant townhouse; the man had been evicted from the townhouse but was angry about being evicted, wearing body armor and shot the police officer. The police might be aggressive but who knows what they'll find when they make a traffic stop or respond to a call. Scary.