From the New York Times, the New York Police Department’s practice of “stop and frisk,” generally men of color, violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution:
In a decision issued on Monday, the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, ruled that police officers have for years been systematically stopping innocent people in the street without any objective reason to suspect them of wrongdoing. Officers often frisked these people, usually young minority men, for weapons or searched their pockets for contraband, like drugs, before letting them go, according to the 195-page decision.
However, Judge Scheindlin was clear, she was not ending the practice, just appointing a federal monitor to make the practice fall more in line with federal standards, issuing a report every six months until the NYPD “has achieved compliance.”
So, yay?
This article appears in Aug 8-14, 2013.
So what do all the Lefties feel is the best way, to disarm all these Thugs who run rampant on our streets…gun buy backs… LOL? SaF is actually a program which works in these “Gun-Free” zones of murder. If it was done in Chicago, along with a Legal CCW Permit system, the Citizens could take back their streets.
It’s too bad people like cempiremtn keep viewing the Constitution through ideological lenses. A violation of someone’s civil rights is no less repugnant just because the perpetrator is an official of the state. In point of fact it is worse as these are the people tasked with guarding our liberties. If we could disarm those thugs legally and physically, returning them to their former roles as peace officers (as opposed to police officers), it would be a vast improvement.
I have to wonder: if the NY police did this to as many white and people of Asian decent (they always seem to be forgotten in these things) would things have changed a long time ago? Just curious.