Stop-frisk ruling will hurt minorities, Ray Kelly says-makes me want to puke!!!
AP JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK -- Police Commissioner Ray Kelly assailed a federal judge's finding of racial discrimination and demand for changes to his department's stop and frisk practice, telling a Sunday news show that minority communities will be "the losers" if the ruling isn't overturned.
During interviews on three different shows, Kelly also raised questions about the judge's call to try outfitting officers with tiny video cameras. Throughout, he faulted the judge's reasoning and defended the New York Police Department's use of stop and frisk as legal and life-saving.
"The losers in this, if this case is allowed to stand, are people who live in minority communities," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation." He noted that 97 percent of shooting victims are black or Hispanic, reasoned that similar demographics apply if a stop deters a killing and added that there have been more than 7,300 fewer killings in the 11 full years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure so far than in the 11 years before.
"Things are going right here in New York. And this decision certainly has the potential of overturning it," Kelly said on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
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