Top 6 Stop-and-Frisk Locations in New York...

prodigalson

Courts and politicians also need to stop police when people try to record their activities. Any cop found doing so should be immediately arrested, suspended, and heavily fined.

whynot_31

I think you meant to write:

"Courts and politicians also need to stop police from arresting people who try to record their activities. Any cop found doing so should be immediately arrested, suspended, and heavily fined."

I doubt you will be successful in this aim, and suggest that people record cops in secret instead.

whynot_31

Now that the primaries are over and the court case has been decided, I expect media attention to rapidly fade.

However, now is when the real work begins. Now is when we see whether this court case and election has any meaningful impact in the neighborhoods we claimed to want to help:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/da-charles-hynes-soon-to-be-successor-ken-thompson-outlines-big-plans-article-1.1452972

This is not a matter of proving that arresting uneducated, unemployed, addicted persons does not change their behavior over the long term. We proved that long ago.

...this is about looking for some other alternative that the public will find platable.

prodigalson

Another reason why society needs to control police:

Strange how conservatives who normally get so upset about needless government intrusionism so often remain silent when truths like this are exposed.

whynot_31

As a result of the court decisions, DeBlasio and a new police commissioner, the NYPD doesn't stop and frisk as much. However, the police are still remaining quite busy, and the subjects of their efforts are likely disproportionately members of historically disadvantaged groups:

"Arrests Of Subway Panhandlers Triples

Arrests of peddlers and panhandlers in the subway have more than tripled over the past two months, compared to the same period last year. Officers have made 274 arrests. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton included the reduction of panhandling in the subway as a top priority in his inauguration speech. In a similar fashion, arrests at public housing for such violations as drinking beer in public and riding a bike on the sidewalk have increased to 21 percent from the same period last year. Such data is now available under Bratton, and was kept under wraps by the previous commissioner. Bratton sees the crackdown on low-level offenses as a way to deter more serious ones. Stop-and-frisks in the transit system, however, have dropped 96 percent."

quote from Gotham Gazette.

sources:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303824204579423741063112908

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/nyregion/arrests-of-panhandlers-and-peddlers-on-subway-increase-sharply-under-bratton.html?_r=0

Is arresting people for riding their bike on the sidewalk in front of housing projects progress over stopping and frisking people who were hanging out there?

whynot_31

Given how wealth, education and employment are presently distributed in this country, I may be silly to expect an outcome that is any different.

http://www.bkmag.com/2014/05/06/dont-be-fooled-bill-brattons-policing-policies-are-discriminatory-too

whynot_31

Our new commissioner is already showing himself to be smarter than the previous one:

http://www.bkmag.com/2014/05/12/police-commissioner-bill-bratton-backpedals-on-subway-breakdancing-arrests/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=bratton_bk

He is creating "cover".

whynot_31

The majority of the arrests that stemmed from stop and frisk (S&F) were marijuana possession.

Now that S&F is out of fashion, the NYPD seems to be arresting more folks for trespassing.   

http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/5126/complex-changes-in-low-level-arrests-under-de-blasio#.U35Y-CjsmXL

I suspect it is the SAME folks.