IRENA LI & REINIER LAZARO SUPA FORENSIC PERIOD 2

Stop-and-Frisk Laws, Good? Or Bad? Pros Substantial decrease in violent crime rates Decrease of crime creates a safer community to live in People are more likely to be attracted to the area which creates revenue Cons Stops attribute to racial profiling Violate the rights we have as humans Uses skin color for evidence as grounds for suspicion

ACLU’s Position  Opposes Stop-and-Frisk because it’s:  A violation on civil liberties  A disadvantage to community-police relations  Believes it’s an overly punishing discipline with police involvement that restricts the education and many future of young men and women of color

Why are they against these laws?  Does not reduces crime nor keep people safer  No research has ever proven the effectiveness of NYC’s stop-and-frisk regime  The small number of arrests, summonses, and guns recovered demonstrates practice is ineffective  Violent crimes in larger cities decline more than NYC without relying on stop and frisk abuses  Stop-and-Frisk is discriminatory  Only 11% of stops in 2011 were based on a description of a violent crime suspect  From 2002 to 2011, 90% of black and Latino residents were stopped  88% of stops were of innocent New Yorkers

How does the stop and frisk laws have an effect on people?  Consumes a lot of tax money  David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert on street stops said,  “Few searches yield weapons or drugs. The more people are searched, the more innocent people are hassled. This ties up resources and can become costly.”  Each search is time consuming  When officers make a stop they are required to fill out a form which includes  When, where and why of the stops  Age, race and asked whether the person was frisked

Cont.  Enforces the racial discrimination we have today  Seem as if the whites and races other than Latinos and blacks are always innocent  According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, NYC’s police officers stopped 685,724 times and 87% of those searches involved blacks or Latinos (many of them young men)  Creates life-time scars towards innocent people  Without efficient reason, people are handcuffed, placed in cells, and detained for hours  Feel like a prisoner at home trying to avoid the police

Specific actions and cases involving the ACLU and NYCLU

Coalition Work Started Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) Address reforms to the NYPD With it they made the Community Safety Act

Community Safety Act Work with Councilmember Jumaane Williams Protect from profiling and unlawful searches Officers must show ID and explain themselves Establish NYPD Inspector General Office

Litigation Work against Taxi/Livery Inspection Program (TRIP) Stop expansion of stop and frisk On May 15 th, 2012, NYPD agreed to only check what looks suspicious

Stop and Frisk App Monitor the police A/V recorder that’s sent to the NYCLU Allows New Yorkers to report the NYPD

Case: Ada Morales v. Chadbourne  US citizen arrested twice by ICE (Immigration customs enforcement)  Sued them w/ assistance from the ACLU of Rhode Island  Court rules that immigration detainers are requests, not orders, making them illegal

Case: Castro v. Lakowsky  Maria Castro is victim of abuse applying for U-visa  South Tucson Police Department (STPD) held her for 5 days after traffic stop  ACLU took action on her behalf over unreasonable search and seizure laws  Lawsuit is averted after STPD agrees to change department’s policies  ACLU also working with local governments or Arizona to teach them that SB 1070 doesn’t work

Case: Hebshi v. United States Journalist detained after plane ride because of who she sat next to Illegally strip searched Suspected of terrorism because of race and circumstance

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