Why Didn't The Root.com Mention Who Brought "Stop & Frisk" To Mission Accomplished Cities And Mention It Illegal Hand Guns Was The Primary Motivating Factor?

I have reported several times on this blog regarding how the policy of "Stop And Frisk" had been replicated virially through various east coast "Mission Accomplished Cities" just like the right-wing has replicated Arizona's "Illegal Immigration" policy.    Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey who moved from the department in Washington DC up to Philly told of his intention to bring the "effective" program to his new department in order to clamp down on illegal guns. Ramsey was a long time officer in the Chicago Police Department and was considered as Chicago Police Chief by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

• The Root.com - June 2011 - How Cops Turn 'Stop and Frisk' Into 'Stop and Arrest'
• The Root.com -  Aug 2010 - Stop And Frisk: What Racial Profiling Looks Like In Brooklyn
• The Root.com - July 2010 - New York's Useless Stop And Harass Policy 

The key questions - as we inspect the content and indictments in the most recent report submitted to our community by The Root.com t is:

• Why did The Root.com choose to focus on the aggressive search for DRUGS but not the search for HANDGUNS?
• Why did The Root.com - who is keen on putting a "face on all right-wing indiscretions" avoid identifying the "Progressive Baby Daddy" of the Stop And Frisk policies which have snared so many Black males in a police drag net?
• Why was the Black community inclined to look past this policy that appears to complement Progressive-Fundamentalist judicial activist Michelle Alexanders' theory about the conspiracy to lock up Black males in order to destroy the Black community  and still vote for these "oppressors" to the tune of more than 50%+1, showing the community's approval of their scheme?

To the credit of The Root - in their July 2011 story they quote the New York Times saying:

The citywide program, according to the Times, is ''most urgently meant to get guns off the streets.'' Yet ''the arrest rate is less than 1 percent ... in the more than 50,000 stops since 2006, the police recovered 25 guns.'' The Times' estimate of ''less than 1 percent'' understates the statistical rate of gun detection by a factor of more than a thousand.

Recovering a single gun in Brownsville requires the NYPD to stop, question and frisk an astounding 2,080 persons randomly -- often harassing such citizens and sometimes shooting them dead in Brooklyn and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the gun discovery rate could likely be matched were cops to randomly frisk rabbis and Catholic priests, to say nothing of college deans or Wall Street brokers.

A Fortification Against The Present Drive To End "The War On Drugs" And A Choice To Avoid Upending Their Unconstitutional Drive To Confiscate Handguns

When faced with the possibility of inadvertently showing the consequences of a policy that is popular among Black people - The Root.com choose to target their June 2011 story about "Stop And Frisk" on how the "War On Drugs" is the motivating factor which is prompting the police to forcibly interact with young Black and Hispanic males thus increasing the likelihood that something will be found in their possession that will trigger their arrest.

This logic says that if we take away "illegal drugs" as a vector for police to "stop and frisk" the young people who they are "racially profiling" then this will result in the decrease in the prison population as these "non-violent felons" shouldn't be in jail in the first place.

The fact remains that in most of these east coast cities the hunt for illegal handguns in response to precipitous "Black on Black Homicides" during a previous interval was a greater motivating force for this policy - after PUBLIC DEMAND requested that the politicians and the police command staff "DO SOMETHING!!!!" in response to the feelings of terror that the community had been suffering from.

As a person who lives in a violent metro-area we must understand that there is a certain biorhythm that these issues live by. This pendulum swings from one direction too the next as it never settles at an equilibrium but instead goes toward each extreme until the countervailing force of reason pushes the policies in the other direction.

At minimum The Root.com should have been transparent - acknowledging the complexity in the situation that is handed to the police. In their "damned if you do, damned if you don't" disposition with the Black community - the protest marches against the police to:

• "Do Something!!!  Too Many Of Us Are Being Victimized And You Don't Seem Too Concerned"
• or "Stop Doing This To Us!!!  We Are Not All Criminals" 

Whereas the police can't catch a break in either direction - the COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS who are typically leading the charger are always "right" and never receive a scratch.  They are "working in the best interests of the Black community" - you know.   (Or at least intending to do so).