Justice
A Horrifying Story of 'Stop and Frisk' Taken to Its Logical Extreme
Earl Sampson, 28, has been stopped 258 times, searched more than 100 times, and jailed 56 times ... in four years.
In New York, incoming mayor Bill de Blasio has promised to rethink the city's controversial stop and frisk policing policy, which has already been successfully challenged in the courts and is only being kept alive by the outgoing Bloomberg administration’s appeals. Even some cops have spoken out against it.
In Miami Gardens, Florida, however, an even more aggressive approach to policing – one that verges on the Kafkaesque -- is going strong, as revealed in an extraordinary story in yesterday’s Miami Herald.