sar nsa have on them. is there a j. edgar hooverish going on? the other thing you think about, look, you may be comfortable with the nsa surveilling america under a president you like, but are you going to be comfortable with it under a president or politician that you don t like? what about when your mayor gets access to this or your police department gets access to this? these are the kinds of questions that are legitimate. james, i think we re going to see that. we see that in different jurisdictions where people have very different relationships necessarily to who the executive is. do you think we ll see a change if and when president obama were to leave office? we might, but i think at the core here is that there s no data that suggests that stop and frisk reduces crime. there s other things, community policing, different demographic patterns or different things that factor into that. that s the same thing about the nsa and war on terror. if we want to prosecute the war on ter
work the government is doing against all of our communities and there are opportunities for folks to come together. david, how do you put guts on the nsa story when even i come in here and i think about it, where it just seem remote. i think to myself, i guess there s a database somewhere that might have some thing i have, i don t know. what s that going to do to my life at the end of the day? well, look, i think that s a fair question. i think that s where imaginations can run wild. look, i wrote a piece today for nsfwcorp about how we have to wonder whether members of congress have to fear what the n nsa have on them. is there a j. edgar hooverish going on? the other thing you think about, look, you may be comfortable with the nsa surveilling america under a president you like, but are you going to be comfortable with it under a president or politician that you don t like?
we look at the massive amount of work the government is doing against all of our communities and there are opportunities for folks to come together. david, how do you put guts on the nsa story when even i come in here and i think about it, where it just seem remote. i think to myself, i guess there s a database somewhere that might have some thing i have, i don t know. what s that going to do to my life at the end of the day? well, look, i think that s a fair question. i think that s where imaginations can run wild. look, i wrote a piece today for nsfwcorp about how we have to wonder whether members of congress have to fear what the n nsa have on them. is there a j. edgar hooverish going on? the other thing you think about, look, you may be comfortable with the nsa surveilling america under a president you like, but are you going to be comfortable with it under a president or politician that you don t like? what about when your mayor gets access to this or your police department ge