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Do 8 cop shootings trump stop-and-frisk concerns?(NY)(Poll to freep)
crainsnewyork.com ^ | 10 April, 2012 | NA

Posted on 04/11/2012 7:12:57 PM PDT by marktwain

Eight New York City police officers have been shot in the past four months. Illegal guns from out of state “are turning our city into a shooting gallery,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the New York Daily News this week. His department’s controversial stop-and-frisk polices uncovered 800 such guns last year. “There is a reason why we continue to be proactive on the street,” Mr. Kelly said. But critics of his stop-and-frisk practices say that tens of thousands of Constitutionally wrong searches conducted annually in mostly minority neighborhoods do not a single right make.

Does the spree of recent cop-shootings trump NYPD critics’ stop-and-frisk concerns?

* Yes. Cops’ lives should come first. The NYPD should stop and frisk more people and get more guns off the street.

* No. Citizens’ rights come first. This spate of shootings happened despite NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk—the approach failed.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; ny; police
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To: Joe 6-pack

Ruger in Connecticut; Springfield in Mass and so many others...

True Yankees are in the minority in New England these days. I was born in Missouri but the United States was birthed by Yankee Patriots.


21 posted on 04/11/2012 9:12:32 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: One Name
Yep. I was born and raised in PA and as such, always had a fondness for these...


22 posted on 04/11/2012 9:18:06 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: marktwain; dynachrome

This one could use some help.


23 posted on 04/11/2012 9:20:03 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (Repeal Obama)
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To: Joe 6-pack

You’re my hero.

My favorite movie is “The Last of the Mohicans”

Named my boy Nathaniel “of the monkees”


24 posted on 04/11/2012 9:26:56 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: marktwain
Illegal guns from out of state “are turning our city into a shooting gallery,” - That's the first time I eve heard of guns shooting themselves; normally it takes a person holding the gun to pull the trigger.

No circumstances can trump truly unalienable rights; otherwise they aren't rights just permissions from the state.

25 posted on 04/11/2012 9:32:06 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (In case of doubt: Attack! George S. Patton)
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To: marktwain

Illegal guns from out of state “are turning our city into a shooting gallery,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the New York Daily News this week.

Really, you can’t fix stupid......
So Ray is it your claim that guns are walk,flying magically appearing in your town and discharging themselves into you citizens? Got a news flash for ya. Doesn;t work that way.
What is turning you city into a shooting gallery is its citizens. Deal with it..........


26 posted on 04/11/2012 11:15:07 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: marktwain; 2ndDivisionVet; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; all the best; AmericaUnite; ...
no at 69% now. Thanks to AZ.44mag for the ping!

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27 posted on 04/12/2012 2:48:21 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: marktwain; dynachrome

Yes. Cops’ lives should come first. The NYPD should stop and frisk more people and get more guns off the street.
(30%, 139 Votes)

No. Citizens’ rights come first. This spate of shootings happened despite NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk—the approach failed.
(70%, 317 Votes)

Total Voters: 456


28 posted on 04/12/2012 3:24:44 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: marktwain

Does the spree of recent cop-shootings trump NYPD critics’ stop-and-frisk concerns?

Yes. Cops’ lives should come first. The NYPD should stop and frisk more people and get more guns off the street. (30%, 140 Votes)

No. Citizens’ rights come first. This spate of shootings happened despite NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk—the approach failed. (70%, 328 Votes)

Total Voters: 469


29 posted on 04/12/2012 7:58:42 PM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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