Out-of-control cops

Guest at 2:14,

Did you even read the details of my stop & frisk incident, including the linked article detailing the crime and perp description that was likely the purported reason for cops stopping me? If you can explain to me how I look anything like one of three 5' 5" black guys then I deserve to be in the prestidigitation industry. I'm convinced that, when they saw me walking through the projects at a brisk pace, they said, "Hey this guy probably just came here to make a drug buy, let's stop him and use this morning's robbery as an excuse". Whatever, the fact is that the CCRB, after interviewing me and all three officers involved, came to the conclusion that the lead cop had abused his authority on three counts.

And, yes, our rights are precious, as opposed to "precious-in-quotation-marks" as you seem to imply they are. It says, right there in the Constitution, that people in the US are entitled to the right of privacy. I'd say it's pretty clear that someone rifling through your pockets without due (or stated) cause is tantamount to throwing that right, which the founding fathers struggled so hard to formulate, straight in the dumpster. The fact that you seem to disagree with that analysis and appear to be perfectly happy to have anyone, including yourself, stopped and searched for no cause, suggests to me that you would find the atmosphere of freedom that exists in Russia, Burma, Honduras, or any one of a dozen other civil-rights-deprived nations to be much more conducive to your philosophy on life than the conditions that exist (or should exist) here in the US.

Drunken Revival:

If you had the sense to read my Jan 24th reply to a guest comment you would have seen the answers to most of your questions.

As to your comments "I'm saying if you don't like it, then leave" and "The NYPD is above the law"; I have no idea how anyone with even the vaguest concept of what America stands for can write such objectionable crap. I seem to remember similar sentiments permeating the crisp Bavarian air around 1930.

Drunken Revival wrote: ........If I was you I'd be happy they didn't crack you in the skull, ask questions later, throw a bag of dope in your console and chuckle about it over coffee and donuts.

If you believe, as you appear to, that that's standard operating procedure for the NYPD and yet still advocate not seeking sanction against the tendency to such behavior, then you're an even bigger fool than I had first taken you for.