[pessimizer]

This conversation is totally beside any point, but stop-and-frisk has happened over 5 million times since 2002 (9 out of 10 leading to nothing), and a community of thousands were monitored based on their religion over a period of years, although it never generated a single lead.

>For every one of these examples I can point to a hundred cases where some officer put their life on the line to do their job and help do their part to make NYC a decent place to live.

Over 500 million times?

http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data

[bane]

> Over 500 million times?

Yes, congratulations, you know how to multiply. You know it was a figure of speech.

Anybody can make lists of good and bad deeds about an organization and point to why that list exemplifies some preconceived notion you already have.

Here's my list after 2 minutes of barely looking

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/02/nypd-saves-baby_n_4...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-hospital-...

http://7online.com/news/exclusive-hero-cop-speaks-out-about-...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/obama-praises-hero-nypd-...

http://nypost.com/2014/04/10/smoke-from-williamsburg-blaze-s...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/12/13/nypd-hero-cop-kil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_workers_killed_in_th...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-includes-officers-died-911-il...

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/610520-hero-cop-dies-nypd-of...

http://www.silive.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2014/03/peter_mcp...

http://www.breaking911.com/hero-nypd-cops-save-man-from-jump...

http://epicvictories.com/nypd-officer-becomes-a-hero-after-h...