Agenda for 12/11

1. CIA Torture Report

2. The "Affluenza" Defense - white (rich) privilege?

3. Which policing policies and strategies target blacks and minorities? Stop and frisk.

4. Stop and Frisk Data - visualized

5. A "Stop and Frisk" victim?

6. The Stop and Frisk Debate - NY Times

HW - Assignment #16 - Stop and Frisk (eBackpack)

• Visit the websites and videos about "Stop and Frisk" above and then answer the following questions.

1. Define "Stop and Frisk" as used by the NYPD

2. What are the primary arguments in support of "Stop and Frisk?" Provide at least three pieces of specific data that supports the policy.

3. What are the primary arguments against "Stop and Frisk." Provide at least three specific pieces of evidence to support arguments against the policy.

4. What is your opinion of the policy?

• Which arguments are most convincing to you?
• If you agree that it should be used, what would you say to a law-abiding New Yorker who is stopped 5-7 times a year for no other reason that the color of his skin and the neighborhood in which he lives?

• If you disagree with the process, what would you say to those people who live in dangerous areas of NYC and are desperate for the police to be as active as possible in preventing violent crime?

5. Do you think the policy would have the support it does if 87% of the people stopped were white instead of Black and Latino?