How?

Thursday 21 March 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

How is the Stop and Frisk program where cops can stop and search any individual they choose, at any time they choose, for any reason they choose Constitutional?

Officer Adhyl Polanco, who was initially responsible for calling attention to the quotas via a series of secret recordings made back in 2009, told the court he’d been required to make five stop-and-frisks a month by union delegates and police supervisors. Polanco, who said fellow cops called him a rat after he went public with the recordings, testified officers often felt pressured to make unconstitutional stops in order to meet those quotas. “We were handcuffing kids for no reason,” he said. “I don’t want my kids to get shot by a cop who’s chasing them to write a ‘250.'”

Hint: it’s fucking not. And NYC has done 5 MILLION of them in the last ~11 years, and nearly 90% of these stops are of minorities and result in no charges filed or summonses given.

More than 86 percent of people stopped during the Bloomberg administration were black or Latino, according to an analysis by the NYCLU based on an extrapolation of Police Department data. And 4.4 million of these stop-and-frisk encounters, or 88 percent, were of innocent people who were not arrested or issued a summons. During Bloomberg’s first year in office, the NYPD conducted 97,296 street stops; last year they racked up 533,042—down from 685,724 in 2011.

It’s fucking shameful that this shit happens in America.

2013-03-21  »  madlibertarianguy