In this 2010 video about quit-and-frisk, The Occasions investigates the use of the tactic in 1 Brooklyn community.
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Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio of New York City announced on Dec. 5 that he had selected William J. Bratton to head the city’s Police Department, signaling an end to the aggressive end-and-frisk techniques favored by the Bloomberg administration. Over the prior 10 many years the variety of end-and-frisks had risen dramatically, specially of youthful black and Hispanic males, though it fell considerably in 2012.
What do you consider of the police tactic of end-and-frisk?
In the Aug. twelve article “Judge Rejects New York’s Cease-and-Frisk Policy,” Joseph Goldstein wrote about a court ruling this summer time that declared the city’s use of quit-and-frisk to be unconstitutional.
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the quit-and-frisk techniques of the New York Police Division violated the constitutional rights of minorities in the city, repudiating a significant element in the Bloomberg administration’s crime-fighting legacy.
The use of police stops has been broadly cited by city officials as a linchpin of New York’s accomplishment story in seeing murders and key crimes fall to historic lows. The police say the practice has saved the lives of 1000′s of younger black and Hispanic guys by getting rid of 1000′s of guns from the streets.
But the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, located that the Police Department resorted to a “policy of indirect racial profiling” as it enhanced the variety of stops in minority communities. That has led to officers’ routinely stopping “blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they had been white.”
Students: Read through the complete post, then tell us …
- What do you consider of the police tactic of cease-and-frisk? Do you favor aggressive or selective use of the tactic? Do you believe it can be used “with respect,” as Mr. De Blasio has referred to as for? Or, do you think the police need to abandon the technique? Why?
- Do you feel New York and other cities can bring down crime without aggressively using quit-and-frisk?
- The Times Editorial Board just lately wrote:
New York City in 2012 had the lowest murder count in at least 50 many years, and it is on tempo to have even fewer murders this year. At the identical time, the number of stops by police officers has dropped precipitously from much more than 200,000 in the first quarter of 2012, the substantial-water mark of the program, to just over 21,000 in the third quarter of this 12 months. If stops alone were holding back a hidden tsunami of crime, the city would have been overwhelmed by now.
Do agree with the Editorial Board’s argument that stop-and-frisk is not holding back a tidal wave of crime?
- Do you feel that quit-and-frisk can be utilised by the police in a way that doesn’t violate anyone’s constitutional rights? If yes, when need to the police use the tactic? When should they not?
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The Learning Network Blog: What Do You Think of the Police Tactic of Stop-and-Frisk?
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