Stop-and-frisk is undoubtedly a hot topic in this campaign season. Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump is a proponent of reviving the controversial procedure, stating, "If you did some of that in Chicago as an example, where you had 3,000 shootings since January 1, 3000 people were shot and if you did stop-and-frisk there it would be so great for their community." Trump was referring to New York City’s debated effectiveness of the practice, which was declared to be

It’s common knowledge that throughout the United States there have been countless numbers of overdoses because we see it in the news and we see it within our towns. This is an epidemic sweeping across our nation and does not show signs of lapsing. In 2014, over 40,000 people died from drug related overdoses, and countless others have overdosed but have been revived by police and emergency medical services. Since 2000, there has been a 137% increase in overdose deaths involvin