Alton Maddox: Martial Law Creeping Up I-95
The New York Police Department is seeking to hide its stop and frisk data from the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights among others, even though it had no problem providing the same data to the RAND Corp. which, after receiving a hefty municipal grant, proposed the police use of Tasers in response to the assassination of Sean Bell—despite a jury’s ruling in a products liability case that Tasers are deadly weapons. A white racist or a self-hating Negro coupled with a high-powered, semiautomatic gun and a badge is a recipe for murder. Racism and self-hatred were the farthest things from RAND’s study, but those ingredients were present in the assassination of Sean Bell. The Queens prosecutor’s office laid the foundation for a cover-up in People v. Oliver et al.