"motherboardtv:  Listen As Cops Threaten Young Men During a Stop-and-Frisk In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop. - by Derek Mead  Motherboard's piece about stop-and-frisk reminded me of The New Inquiry's great Evan Calder Williams essay ""Objects of Derision"". Specifically:  ""A cop is tautologically specified as ""untouchable"" by the same order of law that he enforces, the same one that declares individual subjects to be no concern of the police. Because the declared rules of engagement have different conditions for those involved (for example, for you and an officer on the same street), an exchange between nominal equals is utterly impossible. The possibility of a struggle, conversation, encounter, or discourse on terms that apply mutually to both parties is denied. The two cannot both be understood as subjects in the same register. They are incommensurable."""
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