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If the police are responding to specific requests for "protection" in public housing you have to bring up selective enforcement (or selective prosecution). ONLY if stop & frisk is being equally applied to citizens in the tennaments as well as on wall street, the upper west side, & Scarsdale is the policy equally applied.
Still doesn't mean it comports fully with the 4th Amendment but it opens the door to what protections the 4th Amendment does provide.
You also have to ask what responsibility the state has to provide personal security to citizens of public housing. The states have argued, and the SC agreed, that the state has no responsibility to provide security to any individual in any location at any time for any reason. (Sounds like reasonable need for a constitutionally protected right to self defense in public to me.)
So this all just sounds like double-speak.
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