Tinted window checkpoints in Crown Heights: Racial profiling or good policing?
A crackdown on tinted windows in Crown Heights was received with a mix of skepticism, helplessness and begrudging understanding.
Police narrowed the roadway on Franklin Avenue just a few blocks south of Eastern Parkway at around 7 p.m. Monday evening, asking each driver to roll up his or her windows so officers could view their relative translucency. The officers were polite and respectful, but vehicles, including bus traffic, were significantly backed up as a result of the operation.
Ade, who grew up at the very intersection where the checkpoint was taking place, had his doubts.