Another element of Trump's "law and order" campaign, brought up as tension flared over police shootings of black men in September, is his intention to bring back the "stop-and-frisk" policy.
"We did it in New York, and it worked incredibly well," he said of the practice that was criticised for unfairly targeting African Americans and Latinos.
"To refer to a policy that has been deemed unconstitutional shows a lack of knowledge and concern for a significant portion of the country," Arva Rice, president of the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, says.
Stop-and-frisk first came under intense scrutiny in 1999, in the aftermath of the police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean immigrant, outside of his apartment in the Bronx.
"Stop-and-frisk was the direct result that caused my son's death," his mother, Kadiatou Diallo, told Al Jazeera.
The 23-year-old street vendor was shot and killed by two plain-clothes police officers on his way home while reaching for his wallet inside his coat. The cops opened fire, shooting 42 times, hitting Diallo 19 times. He died holding his wallet.
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The death of the son Kadiatou Diallo describes as "sweet and loving" started a movement, bringing attention to the issue of black deaths at the hands of police.
"People were coming out saying, 'it could have been me'. Parents were worried about their sons. It was really a defining moment for the community and the city," she says.
While there is no official US database tracking police shootings, there are independent studies and lists. A University of California study, for instance, shows the probability of being black, unarmed and shot by police is 3.49 times the probability of being white, unarmed and shot by police.
A study conducted by The Guardian, shows that, in 2015 alone, black men were nine times more likely to be killed by police than white men.
Al Jazeera
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