What a stop-and-frisk sounds like (New York, York: low income, income, living in)
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Cops all over do crap like this.... THEY THINK THEY ARE ABOVE EVERYONE!!
very true, last day before I left NYC I got stopped and frisked on the corner of Park & 102nd, cops were crazy aggressive, treating us like we were criminals on the run or something, didn't even tell why they stopped us actually...
I was stopped once. The interaction went like this:
Cops: hey how you doing we need to talk to you for a second.
Me: about what?
Cops: you fit the description of a person we are looking for, we need to search you.
Before I can say anything else, they're already going through my pockets
"can I see a pic of the guy" I ask them.
Cops: nah bra, it was a verbal description.
Me: "how convinient!"
"Officer, You found anything you were looking for"
Cops: "nah get lost now"
And that was my first interaction, with NY finest.
On a second occasion, some douchebag burglarized my apt and these cops simply laughed it off and implied that it was a waste of time to file a police report.
Unfortunately this is standard practice and very sad. A couple days ago I was walking with a friend to get some food (in Mott Haven) around 8pm, and there were about 8 youths (probably around 16 years old) walking down the block parallel to me....just walking..not being loud/rude or otherwise calling attention to themselves. We both see a police car coming down the street towards us....it begins to slow and then stop. We keep walking as usual, however the cops come out of the vehicle and the kids instinctively get up against the wall, with their hands above their head, while the cops say nothing and rifle through their pockets. The cops do nothing/say nothing, and get back in the vehicle and continue on their way, as do the youths.
That is the daily existence of people in these communities and its atrocious and would not be tolerated anywhere else. But here? Anything goes..no rules, no laws...the cops do as they please and if you look at them the wrong way you are cuffed. RAY KELLY NEEDS TO GO.
Unfortunately this is standard practice and very sad. A couple days ago I was walking with a friend to get some food (in Mott Haven) around 8pm, and there were about 8 youths (probably around 16 years old) walking down the block parallel to me....just walking..not being loud/rude or otherwise calling attention to themselves. We both see a police car coming down the street towards us....it begins to slow and then stop. We keep walking as usual, however the cops come out of the vehicle and the kids instinctively get up against the wall, with their hands above their head, while the cops say nothing and rifle through their pockets. The cops do nothing/say nothing, and get back in the vehicle and continue on their way, as do the youths.
That is the daily existence of people in these communities and its atrocious and would not be tolerated anywhere else. But here? Anything goes..no rules, no laws...the cops do as they please and if you look at them the wrong way you are cuffed. RAY KELLY NEEDS TO GO.
I don't understand how stop and frisk can be legal. This hasn't been challenged to the Supreme Court? I think at the very least the police need probable cause to frisk someone.
So, if you were all in the same vicinity how come the cops didn't stop and frisk you as well? What was the difference, aside from age, between you and the kids?
So, if you were all in the same vicinity how come the cops didn't stop and frisk you as well? What was the difference, aside from age, between you and the kids?
That's a good example of what stop and frisk actually is, an ultra agressive tactic based on the idea that cops have of a so called felon: young, black/latino, and living in a low income community. Stop and frisk is based on (racist) stereotypes, plain and simple.
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