Another Blow to Racial Profiling: "Stop & Frisk" Ended by Courts

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Stop And Frisk Violated Rights Of New Yorkers, Judge Rules

A judge has ruled that the NYPD's controversial use of the stop-and-frisk tactic violated the rights of thousands of New Yorkers, The New York Times reports. Judge Shira Scheindlin's decision Monday called for a federal monitor to watch over the police department to ensure cops are in compliance with the constitution.


Stop And Frisk Violated Rights Of New Yorkers, Judge Rules

 

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This is huge! This was one of those laws that was sooo bad and so egregious that you heard everyone talking about how unfair it was to the black and brown residents including people like:

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Also Don't forget people like

Mr.

Thanks

 

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This is huge!

Indeed it is ...

The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil right of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday in a stinging rebuke for what the mayor and police commissioner have defended as a life-saving, crime-fighting tool.

 

[Katzndogz]

New Yorkers will be so thankful when they are robbed, raped and murdered.

Or, they will just leave.

 

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"The city's highest officials have turned a blind eye to the evidence that officers are conducting stops in a racially discriminatory manner," she wrote. "In their zeal to defend a policy that they believe to be effective, they have willfully ignored overwhelming proof that the policy of targeting "the right people" is racially discriminatory."

Police brass received warnings since at least 1999 that officers were violating rights, she said. "Despite this notice, they deliberately maintained and even escalated policies and practices that predictably resulted in even more widespread Fourth Amendment violations," she wrote in a lengthy opinion.

"Far too many people in New York City have been deprived of this basic freedom far too often," she said. "The NYPD's practice of making stops that lack individualized reasonable suspicion has been so pervasive and persistent as to become not only a part of the NYPD's standard operating procedure, but a fact of daily life in some New York City neighborhoods."

Lets hear it for the 4th Amendment

 

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New Yorkers will be so thankful when they are robbed, raped and murdered.

Or, they will just leave.

Take your skirt off

 

[Katzndogz]

The good news is, Americans are renouncing their citizenship at record levels.

 

[TNHarley]

racial profiling? LOL
if victims didnt say their perpetrators were bkack or hispanic, they wouldnt be targeted as much, ey? pathetic
good they did. it only comes uo with eleven percent arrest rate
just more divide between citizens and police officers if u ask me...
aa if the state telling u what u can do and not do, isnt enough!

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Bloomberg, the ultimate liberal, is forced to take a backward step on the road to totalitarianism.

Heh.

 

[drivebymedia]

Republican Bloomberg's ultimate attempt to set up his racist totalitarian SS - is defeated, soundly.

Next for the Courts: Joe Arpaio's racist kingdom in Arizona is about to be smashed ....

 

[BreezeWood]

Police stops in New York CIty have soared some 600 percent over the past decade since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office. New York's finest stopped and interrogated people 684,330 times in 2011, according to The Wall Street Journal. 92 percent of those stopped were males, and 87 percent of those stopped were black or Hispanic.

The problem is with who they hire as Cops ... crew cut, sun glassed, gun lovers.

 

[Mad Scientist]

The Pigs aren't supposed to even touch you unless they're placing you under Arrest.

Only an Idiot thinks Stop and Frisk keeps ANYONE safe!

 

[Clementine]

Arpaio and Bloomberg are actually quite different in their approaches. Arpaio simply discovers illegal aliens when they are stopped and have no legal driver's license or any ID. He also knows where most illegals hang out. It's a myth that he stops people just for being Hispanic. My nephew is a police officer in Phoenix and he says many cops there are Hispanic. It's well-known where illegals gather to find work and where the roads are that are known for human and drug trafficking. Few decent people have reason to be in certain places. Even then, they cannot stop people just for being on certain roads. They usually stop people for speeding, too many people in car (meaning not all can have seat belts), expired registration, broken tail lights, running red lights or other minor traffic violations. Once stopped, a large number do not have valid driver's licenses, cannot speak English and often have no ID whatsoever. Many times when cars are stopped, people get out and start running.

It is perfectly reasonable to report them to INS and check their status. Not that it does any good anymore since the Obama administration, and past ones, have arbitrarily opted to ignore our immigration laws.

Bloomberg was just going after those he knew would likely have illegal weapons or drugs. Even though he was right, he has to respect the bill of rights. Had cops had reason, however small, to stop people and due cause for a search, it would be different.

Everyone wants crime reduced and either people go too far in profiling or too many people bitch about reasonable police profiling. The cause begins with dysfunctional families who aren't raising children to respect their communities.

I don't have the answer, but if politicians would be willing to take a hard look at the core of the problem, then they could begin coming up with something to correct it. How nice it would be to help steer children in the right direction early on. We've tried educating parents and schools have taken over the role of parenting more and more. Maybe if we quit rewarding bad behavior and stupid decisions, young people wouldn't be so quick to make dumb choices. One thing that makes people learn fast is having to face consequences for everything they do.

Bloomberg, the nanny liberal, was merely frisking people simply because they were black. While that is a clear violation of rights, it did bring crime down. That is the sad part. Crime rates among blacks are higher. It's time to address the root of the problem. Covering up statistics or ignoring them isn't the answer, nor is illegally searching people.

I am sick of all the political correctness that prevents us from having meaningful discussions about the root of problems. We can't come up with solutions until we take a hard look at what is behind the youth crime rate.

 

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racial profiling? LOL
if victims didnt say their perpetrators were bkack or hispanic, they wouldnt be targeted as much, ey? pathetic
good they did. it only comes uo with eleven percent arrest rate
just more divide between citizens and police officers if u ask me...
aa if the state telling u what u can do and not do, isnt enough!

What victims? There were no perps in the stop and frisk law.

Amazing you think its ok, fuck the 4th amendment!*

*when its convenient for me

 

[The Rabbi]

Given the biggest beneficiaries of that policy were minorities themselves I'd see the decision as rooted in racism. Blacks and Hispanics will be at much greater risk of violent crime going forward.

 

[drivebymedia]

Bloomberg was just going after those he knew likely would have illegal weapons or drugs.

Do you see your, Bloomberg's and Arpaio's problem that got slapped down by the Court?

 

[drivebymedia]

Blacks and Hispanics will be at much greater risk of violent crime going forward.

The Courts addressed individual rights and racial profiling - not "violent" crime.

 

[Katzndogz]

If the police cannot stop anyone, then everyone should be armed at all times as it their ONLY means of protection.

 

[Avatar4321]

Considering a Terry Stop is only lawful under limited circumstances, why would it surprise anyone that the Court ordered the police to stop using it illegally?

 

[drivebymedia]

Bloomberg, the nanny liberal, was merely frisking people simply because they were black. While that is a clear violation of rights, it did bring crime down.

Police presence - not 'stop and frisk' - brought the crime rate down in NYC

Bloomberg's cut in his police staff was one of the lowest of all Republican State and local municipalities in the U.S.