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substantially more restrained it s among the most restrained police departments in the country. many people thought, even though times had progressed, in other ways some of the images were not that different than images people might have associated with the 50s and 60s. we thought maybe we d gotten past all this stuff, but it keeps happening. and it was a reminder that while the 90s represent so much growth, so much progress, we still had so much further to go. in every society there is a fragile balance between order and freedom. in new york these days, a number of blacks and hispanics in particular feel that it s their freedom which has been sacrificed to achieve order. they are the ones being stopped, frisked, sometimes harassed for no other reason they are black or brown and therefore suspect. although i would not call the 90s the best of times or the worst of times, i see it as two train tracks that dangerously went further and further apart. it s the time that

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