# NYC "police blindfold bill"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-police-blindfold-bill/689385>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 27, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-police-blindfold-bill/689385 "2014-05-27T16:43:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-police-blindfold-bill/689385/21 "2014-05-31T13:44:34Z")

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> [@Donald\_Rump](#):
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> My reading of it is that police can chase leads that _include_ descriptions [of race, gender, age, etc.] but cannot stop and frisk people based _solely_ on those descriptions. If I report to the police I was mugged by a black male, that does not give them license to stop and frisk every black male they come across.

“Officer, I was just mugged by a black male!”  
“Was he more than three feet tall?”  
“Uh, yeah.”  
“Got it.”

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