COURT BLOCKS RULING ON NY POLICE STOP-FRISK POLICY

[flpoljunkie]

Source: AP

COURT BLOCKS RULING ON NY POLICE STOP-FRISK POLICY
By LARRY NEUMEISTER

— Oct. 31, 2013 4:06 PM EDT


NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge's order requiring changes to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program and removed the judge from the case.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the decisions of Judge Shira Scheindlin will be stayed pending the outcome of an appeal by the city.

The judge had ruled in August the city violated the Constitution in the way it carried out its program of stopping and questioning people.

The city appealed her findings and her remedial orders, including a decision to assign a monitor to help the police department changes its policy and training program associated with it.


Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/court-blocks-ruling-ny-police-stop-frisk-policy

[dmr]

1. K&R

[snappyturtle]

2. From the article:

The judge noted she wasn't putting an end to the stop-and-frisk practice, which is constitutional, but was reforming the way the NYPD implemented its stops.

How can this be constitutional? I'm confused.

I guess we should get used to being 'handled' physically and being spied upon.

[Major Nikon]

8. Terry v. Ohio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_v._Ohio

[snappyturtle]

9. Well, where have I been? I can't believe I have never before

heard of this ruling. Thank you!

[Southside]

3. I still can't believe Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly

are behind attacking innocent folk. Seems out of character for them, especially Raymond Kelly, thought he was one of the good guys. You never get used to being stopped and detained for nothing. A few bad apples on the police force abuse that power.

[proverbialwisdom]

7. This popped up when I did a search for the OP story. Shocking, isn't it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/nyregion/12frisk.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

A Few Blocks, 4 Years, 52,000 Police Stops
By RAY RIVERA, AL BAKER and JANET ROBERTS
Published: July 11, 2010

[christx30]

10. I can easily believe

Bloomberg would be attacking innocent people. He's a petty dictator with his island kingdom. He wants to control every aspect of his people's lives.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. And the bad guys win another round

[markpkessinger]

5. Here's a link to the Times' article on the subject

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/nyregion/court-blocks-stop-and-frisk-changes-for-new-york-police.html?hp&_r=0

[greiner3]

6. The entire mess reminds me of the Ray Bradbury SS, 'The Pedestrian';

"In this story we encounter Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in 2053.[notes 1] In the city, roads have fallen into decay. It is revealed that Mead enjoys walking through the city during the night, something which no one else does. "In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time."

On one of his usual walks he encounters a robotic police car. It is the only police unit in a city of three million, since the purpose of law enforcement has disappeared with everyone watching TV at night. Mead tells the car that he is a writer when asked about his profession, but the car does not understand, since no one buys book or magazines in the television-dominated society. The police car struggles to understand why Mr. Mead would be out walking for no reason and decides to take him to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies."

Maybe not much of a connection except for the stopping of someone just walking, minding their own business, but still...