Topic: Stop & Frisk?

[Libertas]

Yeah, OK, foot patrols and being visible, trying to proactively keep ahead of crime and crooks...all well and good...but when and who said it was Constitutionally kosher to "stop & frisk & enter into a database"?

http://fusion.net/justice/story/miami-gardens-stop-frisk-nabs-thousands-kids-finds-667430

 

 

[AlanS]

Two officers from the MGPD told Fusion that high-ranking department officials gave them orders to "bring in the numbers” by conducting stops and arrests. One officer said he was ordered to stop all black males between 15 and 30 years of age.

According to the current police chief, simply being in a "high crime area” may be enough reason to stop and question people. Because of the city’s high crime rate, this means virtually any person can be stopped.

"You're essentially saying you have reasonable suspicion to stop everybody in your community. That's crazy, because that means they're exercising no discretion,” says Martinez, the Miami-Dade public defender.

Nothing to see here.

[Libertas]

Ahh yes, the always popular self-annointed internal policy set as de facto law...they are learning well from their Democratic Fedcoat betters, are they not?  Totally predictable...

Of course we all know the Fedcoats will say only they can pull rabbits out of their butts and call them laws!