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"Operation Clean Halls" would never exist in a white neighborhood . And most white folks probably see nothing wrong with it and consider the unlawful search & seizures of non-whites to be normal - such is the nature of the operating system of white supremacy .
Similarly, during Nazi Germany, a substantial part of the population had to be ready to consider it desirable, acceptable or unavoidable that certain "other" people would be isolated, persecuted and killed. [MORE ] Various movement regulations and identification measures were undertaken by the Government as preconditions to genocide. As the number of Jews or more specifically, semites (non-white people) rose in Nazi Germany, Jews felt the effects of many decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives.
From [HERE ] and [HERE ] New York Police Department officers are patrolling inside private apartment buildings in a program known as Operation Clean Halls. The program has been lauded by some residents who say they feel safer but vilified by others who say they're being harassed at home. Many complain they're illegally stopped and arrested. More than two dozen people who say they were wrongly stopped have filed a federal lawsuit.
The lawsuit is one of three pending federal cases that involve the New York Police Department’s stop, question and frisk practice, championed by police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg - who are both white.
The program is the only one like it in a major U.S. city. It started in the 1990s, when crime was at all-time highs. Now, there are more than 3,000 buildings around the city enrolled, mostly in "higher-crime areas." To enroll, a building owner or manager signs paperwork allowing police to enter and arrest people found to be committing crimes. It gives police standing permission to roam the halls of private buildings.
Edifices citywide are dotted with small white square signs alerting residents that their homes are patrolled by police. Some are huge complexes, others are small brownstones. Officers have conducted hundreds of thousands of patrols up and down stairwells and even more outside. The NYPD claims they catch drug transactions, shoo away loiterers and break up fights. But really, they seem to just round up Black & Brown people.