If you followed the original thinking of the Founding Fathers then a negro was only worth 3/5 of a white man.The Constitution is a major inconvenience for totalitarian scum.
The police will always misuse any powers given to them, it's a law of nature.Only the guilty worry about that outcome. ACA is legislation from a police state, where were you the?
They don't stop and frisk white haired grannies, so you're OK.Can you imagine how pissed you would be if they stopped and frisked you? White hot rage would be my guess.
What leaps off of the page is that this story almost mirrors an example I had given years ago here:
Suppose at 3:00 a.m. you see someone walking down your block carrying a crowbar, going from car to car looking in the windows. You call the police who respond and do.... nothing. Because they can not stop him and can not question his about his suspicious behavior.
Fortunately Stop Question Frisk is still alive, and this murderer had been stopped with a crowbar long ago in the vicinity.
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R #25
I'm w/ R on most of that.
A crowbar is not contraband.
And if it's brand new, and simply being carried home from the hardware store after being purchased, and the subject has the receipt, that's time / date stamped 14 minutes ago, I'd get the guy's name & address, and let him go; add it to the patrol report.
But if it a tool that obvious signs of heavy use, and has automobile paint embedded in its fissures, that gent & I would be headed to an interrogation room.
Looking into cars is a separate matter.
If it was done for personal safety, the way bicyclists do when riding in "the door zone", that's different than lingering with nose to glass to study the car's contents. The latter is by far the more suspicious behavior.
When I see a law-abiding, working American from the Bronx break down in tears on TV because he has been stopped & frisked over 100 times...I'd probably say that skirts the line of reasonableness.
As pointed out, if you view Stop Question and Frisk as a "police state" tactic, you've been living in a police state all your life.
It was declared Constitutional to boot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_v._Ohio
this is a false argument. 'stop, question, and frisk' requires reasonable suspicion. what you're advocating is, in fact, a police state.
Wrong.
The crowbar gives them probable cause
Nice try fat head.
this is a false argument. 'stop, question, and frisk' requires reasonable suspicion. what you're advocating is, in fact, a police state.
T2 #33
I sincerely appreciate your constructive approach T2.
But let's clarify the scenario.
a) It's not merely possessing a crowbar. It's
- possessing a crowbar,
- at 3:AM, while
- looking into cars (lacking a scenario description) potentially "to case the joint".
b) A COP has to put the pieces together.
But all this may be taking us somewhat afield from:
Stop & Frisk Captures Wanted Murderer - Trump Was Right
If stop & frisk is so indispensable to law and order, why is it not merely federal law in the U.S., but the legal standard in all of the Western world?
"You might be conflating two things." T2
Comparing or contrasting perhaps. "Conflating"? Not to my knowledge.
"The scenario above is the one I gave several years back to show that SQF is a necessary law enforcement tool. In the above scenario SQF is the only thing the police would be able to do, as no crime had yet been committed. You take away SQF and all they could do is roll up, say, "Yeah, there he is," and drive away. A conclusion I don't think anybody would find satisfactory."
SQF imparts no supernatural powers.
If a citizen is simply strolling along on the sidewalk at 3:AM carrying a crowbar, glancing into windows occasionally, SQF isn't going to solve who assassinated JFK.
It's ABSOLUTELY possible to SQF a subject, and find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING more to investigate, arrest, confiscate, or whine about.
OF COURSE it could go the other way. But it will not necessarily in all cases.
And this thread is premised on the notion that Saint Trump and his right wing radical police preferences are PROVED correct, based upon a single anecdote is simply ignorant.
Such issues are to be settled by statistical standards, and standards of law, and not on a single arrest, decades into a controversial police protocol.
All they need to do is redefine what constitutes "reasonable suspicion", genius.