Trump Deflects Foundation Problems By Offering Unconstitutional Policy

I guess Donald Trump needed to somehow deflect attention away from his illegal use of foundation funds to not only pay for his own private legal settlements but also buy himself portraits of himself. So the obvious answer was to do something even more outrageous that the media can glom onto for the next few days. And that outrage is to offer the unconstitutional “stop and frisk” policy of policing. The controversial practice was used extensively in New York City for years before a federal judge ruled it an unconstitutional “policy of indirect racial profiling.” An analysis of the policy showed that it was largely ineffective in reducing crime, finding that only 3% of the stops resulted in a conviction or plea bargain and only 0.1% were for violent crimes. On the other hand, the hundreds of thousands of stops each year merely antagonized the community against the police. What is more disgusting about Trump’s proposal is that was offered as a solution to violence in the black community and the implication in Trump’s answer is that this policy would only be applicable in those areas. I can imagine the press will have to spend a lot of time analyzing this brand new Trump policy proposal and have no time to keep on pressing Trump on his taxes and his foundation.

Update: As predicted, the NY Times has a front page story on Trump’s “stop and frisk” proposal. This is after relegating the story about using his foundation’s money to pay his own legal expenses to page A18 yesterday. Simply incredible but entirely predictable.