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Posted on 08/12/2013 2:37:27 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday the New York Police Department's "stop-and-frisk" crime-fighting tactic was unconstitutional, dealing a stinging rebuke to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who vowed to appeal the ruling.
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin called it "indirect racial profiling" because it targeted racially defined groups, resulting in the disproportionate and discriminatory stopping of tens of thousands of blacks and Hispanics while the city's highest officials "turned a blind eye," she said.
"No one should live in fear of being stopped whenever he leaves his home to go about the activities of daily life," Scheindlin wrote in her opinion.
But Bloomberg stood his ground. "People also have a right to walk down the street without being killed or mugged," he said at a news conference, repeating his conviction that the program resulted in a drastic reduction in crime that made New York the "poster child" for safe U.S. cities.
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How does it get more direct?
Besides the profiling aspect, it seems to me it is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment. A lot of that going around these days....
They can always claim it is not about race, but being based on crime statistics.
3% of black men == 50% of all murders.
The crime stats justify extra caution and extra scrutiny under common sense observation and behavior. IE if someone appears to be scoping stuff out, wearing thuggish clothes and acting menacing, acting as a lookout, acting strange, casing places, doing handoffs, loitering...not someone just walking down the street with a briefcase, or talking on a phone.
Wideawake in 1, 2, 3....
You mean like taking pictures of federal buildings?
That's why people want CCW permits doofus.
Oh, yeah! People don’t pay as much attention to the 4th Amend. as they do the 1st and 2nd but it’s getting the crap kicked out of it.
The Left will never stop destroying civilized society.
This is what is wrong with our system of government: There are no hard & fast laws. Every principle is subject to the whim of the voter & his reps.
i was extremely clear as to exactly what i meant.
When I was in law school, I was taught that an unwanted touching was an assault. I was also taught that the 4th amendment required a warrant based on an oath that provided probable cause to believe that a place or person could be arrested, searched or seized. How quaint.
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