
“The Commissioner was also quick to claim that, despite the undercover officers’ involvement and all other apparent evidence to the contrary, the seizure points to success of the ‘stop and frisk’ policy. Kelly’s claim rests on a wiretap of one of the accused, Eddie Campbell, who is heard to say that he prefers not to come to New York because of the stop-and-frisk policy: ‘I’m in Brownsville,’ Kelly quoted Campbell as saying. ‘We got like, umm, uh, whatchamacallit, stop and frisk.’ Campbell is accused of selling 90 guns during 24 meetings with the unnamed detective. Another alleged dealer, Walter Walker, is said to have sold him another 116 guns.”
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