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NEW YORK – A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street.
These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.
Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year — a sharply higher number than just a few years ago
Originally posted by Donnie Darko
Police records indicate that officers are drawn to suspicious behavior: furtive movements, actions that indicate someone may be serving as a lookout, anything that suggests a drug deal, or a person carrying burglary tools such as a slim jim or pry bar.
Originally posted by Darth Lumina
reply to post by Donnie Darko
I just got done reading about this from my yahoo page and was getting ready to start a thread on it! lol Too slow. Oh well.
What have we been saying on here all this time? It sounds like they are starting off small to see how it goes and how people will react, but soon it'll get out of hand. Of course they try to downplay it as a crime prevention tactic, but people can't possible be fooled by this nonsense any longer. What's next after random searches? We all have to walk in single file lines and go through security detectors set up all over the place? Sounds stupid, I know, but I bet people thought it sounded stupid for cops to be doing searches like they are. So, anyone else up for giving up liberty for security?
Originally posted by Donnie Darko
Police stop more than 1 million people on street
news.yahoo.com
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NEW YORK – A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street.
These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.
Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year — a sharply higher number than just a few years ago
the police should be frisking 2 million people/year and getting 200000 criminals off the streets?
Originally posted by starwarsisreal
In Los Angeles the LAPD don't do that