Posted on 07/11/2011 2:05:18 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
The American Civil Liberties Union has dispatched a team of surveyors to Beaver Meadows to compile statistics on the "perceived ethnicity and race ethnicity" of motorists who will be traveling - and potentially stopped by police - along state Route 93 in the borough.
An ACLU attorney on Saturday also confirmed that the organization has secured more than a year's worth of court documents regarding traffic stops conducted by borough police, which will be used along with the statistics to develop a study in response to "concerns" the organization has for policing in the community.
The survey will continue through July 16.
Borough residents alerted Times-Shamrock newspapers on Saturday to a "traffic study" the ACLU was conducting along Route 93 in the borough, which is about 4 miles from Hazleton and has a police department that has made high-profile traffic stops involving illegal immigrants in recent years.
One of the surveyors, Easton resident Tara Stephenson, stood at Rose and Berwick streets with a clipboard in hand, tracking the race of motorists and occupants as they passed by at around 3 p.m. Saturday. She said she was collecting the information for the ACLU.
Forms on her clipboard track weather conditions, direction of travel and the "perceived race" - or whether the driver of a vehicle is black, Hispanic, Asian, "other," "unknown" or white.
Stephenson said she was also asked to document the race of drivers in instances when police stop vehicles. As of 3 p.m. Saturday, Stephenson said she had not observed any vehicle stops.
She said she was collecting the data, which she suspects will be used as a "baseline" for a larger study conducted by the ACLU.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizensvoice.com ...
Who is running this Town the ACLU or city gov ? Written notice ? Next they will suspend him without pay pending outcome of traffic study. ACLU "We haven't accused anybody of being anything," he said. "You will not find a printed word and I can assure you there's not been a spoken word of accusing the Beaver Meadows police of doing anything (wrong) Does anybody really believe that not a spoken word crap. We have concerns. That's why we're doing a study. We have not made any accusations or allegations. If we want to bully, they'll know it. Ask Barletta if we know how to bully." That just really has a bad vibe to it. Distrubing to read. It's a;most as if they want to take the laws into their own hands.
Bolshevik busybodies.
So now we get racial quotas in traffic tickets???
perceived race???
So you have a ACLU type person doing an ACLU type study, using a less then scientific method??
Results will actually be meaningless.
Hey ACLU - GTFO
INTIMIDATION
That is the ACLU.
One organisation that could dissappear and the world would be a better place.
Let a Conservative get caught doing that against the ACLU's agenda. Follow the (Cartel) money. Mexico needs runners (mules) and sellers on station in the U.S..
“How long have you been a member of the Communist Party, Ms. Stephenson?”
aclu... burn them at the stake.
LLS
But they could give a crap about the TSA, body scans and invasions of our personhood.
On July 19th I've been invited to participate in a Village discussion that will focus on 'Drug, Crime and Gang Suppression'. Not that we have any real problems with those now.
Needless to say I will NOT exactly be politically correct with my comments and my ideas of nipping this crap in the bud. As it will involve PROFILING! After all, all we have to do is look 20+ miles to the East at Chicago to see which 'groups' causes 90%+ of these problems (Flash Mobs, anyone? /s).
And any lib's or ACLU types that are can Bite Me.
You’d think the ACLU had better things to do than sniff the feet of traffic cops.
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