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and if he does what he's said and re-implements stop and frisk and every non-white citizen has to frequently deal with the indignity of being searched all the time? Your sentiment while delightful isn't in line with the sort of policies Trump has been promoting during his campaign.

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He doesn't have authority as President to impose stop and frisk on cities. That's why Federalism is wonderful.

But he wants that authority, and has tremendous power as a republican POTUS with 2 or even 3 SCOTUS picks, a republican congress, and a republican senate.

This is indicated by his repeated attacks on Clinton for having been a politician for 30 years and not fixing, well, everything. He is an autocrat.

One can only hope that he subsides his autocratic ambitions or that there are still some hurdles left in place that prevent him from becoming the American Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Either our country's system of checks and balances works, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, we need to replace it anyway.

(I realize how flippant this sounds in the short term, but in the long term, it's right)

If it's really as trivial as you say to turn us into a dictatorship, ...

Hopefully they were simply campaign promises to get votes.

Ok, non-white writing here. I've never been stopped and frisked and neither have most of my non-white friends. And it certainly doesn't happen "all the time", at least to me in my part of town. Although anecdotal, admittedly.

I'm just reminded of a story shared in New York in the 80's where a teacher asked his mostly 14-15 year old African American class if they had been stopped and frisked and every single one of them held their hand up.

Well, me and my friends have different experiences then.

It sounded to me like they were suggesting that Trump is planning to implement stop-and-frisk, not that it is already occurring all the time.

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