From reddit:
I want to tell y'all a story. I am an attorney in New York City, and I used to teach criminal procedure / evidence elective classes to highschoolers in the Bronx as a pro bono project. We all know about stop and frisk, know it's probably unconstitutional, and at it is now technically a dead policy.
I was teaching a class of 25 students (about 20 male, all black or Hispanic) about searches and seizures, and I wanted to use the random searches they conduct in subways as a vehicle for discussion. So I asked, "have any of you been searched by a police officer in the last year in the subway?"
All 25 of them raised their hands. Most of them stated that they had been searched multiple times, some said dozens of times in the last year. These kids were like, 13-15 years old. I have lived in New York City for three years. I am white. I have never been searched. The two white lawyers with me have never been searched, both have lived here longer.
What do you think that does to a kid, to their perception of the world, and police, and their rights and their autonomy, that at 13-15 years old, that police have patted them down and gone through their backpack on the way to school, that police do that to all their friends, that it happens on a weekly or monthly basis? How fukked is that?