pretty important and
uh... also um...
some good news
yesterday the daily news reported that the new york police departments
stop in frisco lissy or at least one element of it
has been ruled unconstitutional by a manhattan federal court judge
shirish arlen
the manhattan federal court as judge
one of them
ordered police to refrain from making trespass stops outside private
residential buildings
even if the landlord is given officers permission to do so as part of the
n_y_p_d_'s clean wholesome program
now again
a lot of the staff
we've got a c
uh... in light of
the melting evidence and i think in some respects unequivocal evidence that one
of the major factors if not the major factor
in the
diminishing of crime in new york city as well as around the country and uh...
in many respects the world was a function of
getting lead out of our atmosphere all of these
programs
that uh... the n_y_p_d_ engages in
that emanated out of the broken windows policy of the early nineties
is premised on the notion that
this type of extremely aggressive
pre cryin
police work if you will
uh... is is the reason why um...
crime has gone down the city and if that's not the case the just occasion
for this stuff
aside from the fact that it's probably unconstitutional
the justification from it uh... falls away
the judge wrote in a two hundred fifty page uh... wanted fifty seven page
ruling while it may be difficult to say when precisely to draw the line between
constitutional and unconstitutional policing counters such a line exists
and the n_y_p_d_ has systemically crossed at when making trespass tops
outside a buildings
essentially uh... what uh... the cops do
is uh...
in about eight thousand buildings citywide
according to the in new york city
civil liberties uh... union
uh...
you've got cops
who's stopping frisk kids
kids teens
outside of buildings uh...
just to make sure that that they're going to an hour how that they're up to
milk no back
i guess
and uh... this is again we've talked about stop interest on this program many
times but
you know contemplate the idea of being a fifteen-year-old a sixteen-year-old
seventeen-year-old a fourteen-year-old
thirteen-year-old
and knowing that you're gonna get stopped by the cops
on a regular basis and frist just for being essentially
a black teenager
and
it's not just sort of haley emily how you doing would you mind going up
against the wall there so i can just patch down
great to see how this uh... a house uh... french class kelly
i mean can you imagine
think about your life
if you are trained to believe that you were a suspect
from a very young age
how would that implicate the rest of your life
how would not the how would that not change
what you perceive to be your opportunities in this world
so uh... good for this judge and i i i hope the whole policy basically gets
thrown out the window
i think it's uh... the devastation that a reeks of on uh... the uh... the
psychology of these kids that they can't be underestimated
so uh... good for this judge and i hope to see more willing to put it