There is a bit of news regarding New York City's "stop and frisk" violation of the constitution. It seems that lawmakers from minority areas are pressing Governor Cuomo to do something about this:

The governor will call for the decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana in public view, administration officials said. Advocates of such a change say the offense has ensnared tens of thousands of young black and Latino men who are stopped by the New York City police for other reasons but after being instructed to empty their pockets, find themselves charged with a crime.

There are two reasonable things to think about this. The first is that this is good because the program will not be as discriminatory as it has been. The second is to think that this is just a way to justify continuing on with a discriminatory program. Regardless, this is all about keeping black and brown skinned men down.

Mayor Bloomberg, for his part, wants to keep punishing these people. The fact that liberals support him just goes to show the pathetic state of liberalism in the United States. Apart from reproductive and gay rights, there is no such thing as social liberalism in mainstream America.