New York, NY – New York Police Department officers last year stopped and questioned more than 680,000 people on the street.
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The so-called stop-and frisks totaled 684,330, a record since the NYPD began yearly tallies of the tactic in 2002.
It’s a 14 percent increase over 2010.
The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/yF0Re4 ) reports that it couldn’t be determined how many people were patted down during the encounters. Typically, half of the potential suspects who are stopped are frisked or searched.
Of those stopped last year, about 12 percent were arrested or received summonses. The rest were not charged.
Civil rights advocates claim the practice unfairly targets innocent blacks and other minorities, and that many stops are made without proper cause. The department calls it an essential crime-fighting tool.
Great. Two thirds of a million searches with no probable cause. Two thirds of a million “Just ’cause I’m a cop and a want to” violations of people’s civil rights.
Two thirds of a million more reasons not to live in the decaying cess-pit that is New York
What about the Constitutional protection about unreasonable search and seizure? How are they getting around that?
Sounds illegal to me. Unfortuantely the people who are being targeted are probably too poor to afford a lawyer to fight it but is sounds like a civil rights violation to me, the right of a person to be reasonable safe and secure in his/her person and not be subjected to unreasonable searches without probable cause.