06-01-2018, 03:47 PM
(06-01-2018, 02:14 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Stop and frisk is a product of broken windows policing. What SSF is talking about is how middle and upper class drug dealers tend to handle their business behind closed doors. The drug deals that happen out in the open, as those in lower class neighborhoods are at a higher rate, are easier to bust.
Precisely correct. There is also the factor that upper and middle class drug users have money on hand to purchase said drugs. Many lower income drug users resort to criminal activity to obtain money for their drug use. Not to mention that street level drug sales are the purview of criminal street gangs and all the peripheral criminal activity, and law enforcement scrutiny, inherent in that. So, as we've stated, there is a very logical and fact based reason for this apparent discrepancy that has nothing to do with ethnicity.
