[csvset]

I'm interning at the Immigrant Defense Project

Immigrant Defense Project

IDP sounds like a criminal legal defense project. All sorts of No-Do-Gooders, helped by leftists.

[Skooz]

War is hell.

[JusPasenThru]

Life is cruel, just not fair at all.

[Jumper]

Stop whinning. Here in Isreal, everyone is checked prior to entering any public place by guards outside. You have to remove all metal objects, declare any weapons (lots of people are carrying guns) and then they wave the "Majic Wand" across your body, sometimes patting you down. Repeat, every public place you go to!!!

Americans may some day soon see this very practice enacted everywhere they go!

[txnativegop]

Boo-Hoo, Boo-Hoo. Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

[HereInTheHeartland]

So did they find anything?

[DainBramage]

Go to law school in Camel Land, I hear its much more tolerant.

[Syberyenta]

“There's a certain amount of stigma with these searches.”

Oh pahleeze. boo hoo hoo indeed.

[mombonn]

No sympathy - he'd be the first one whining about a lack of security if there is another attack.

[CarlEOlsoniii]

Riiiiight...

Okay, Solana, How much did the ACLU pay you to lie about this to the newstation

[Zacs Mom]

"“I felt humiliated. You know, there's a certain anxiety level every time I walk through a subway station or walk through a security checkpoint,” says Yogi Patell, a CUNY Law studen"

GET OVER IT! (yes, I AM yelling!)

I have zero tolerance for people who whine about being inconvenienced because of heightened security.

These are the buttbeads that, the first a bombing occurs on our mass transit, will scream that the government didn't do enough to protect them!

[Balding_Eagle]

“I was on my way to Brooklyn. I'm interning at the Immigrant Defense Project, and I started off here in Flushing,” he says

From this profile, stopping him and seaching him 3 times a day is not enough.

[tx_eggman]

[From many - one.]

Hopefully his complaint is true ... it would mean there is a certain amount of sensible profiling going on.

[gridlock]

My wife observed this when she was getting on the bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal last night. There was a police officer standing by, not doing much of anything. The woman in front of her had one of those big, wheeled carry-on type bags. The officer made no move to search her bag until just before the bus rolled up and a man whom my wife described as "Middle Eastern-looking" hurried up to the bus stop carrying a large camera bag.

The Officer then sprang into action and held up the entire line of passengers. He started by doing a desultory search of the woman's large carry-on and glanced in everybody's briefcase. Finally he took apart the late arriver's camera bag, checking each item, disassembling the camera and staring through all the lenses.

Now, if you look at the numbers, the Middle Eastern man was one of only twenty "searched". But not all searches are of equal intensity. If he had not turned up late, perhaps nobody would have been searched at all.

As far as my wife is concerned, she is not the least bit concerned that this fellow was put through the ringer. But, as you can imagine, things are a little tense at the Port Authority these days...

[Preachin']

What a bummer. This is just the price you have to pay.

[montag813]

“I was on my way to Brooklyn. I'm interning at the Immigrant Defense Project, and I started off here in Flushing....he's a third-year law student,

So we don't have enough "civil rights" lawyers, now we have to import them??

[tcostell]

“I felt humiliated. You know, there's a certain anxiety level every time I walk through a subway station or walk through a security checkpoint,” says Yogi Patell, a CUNY Law student.

Too bad! I'm disappointed that he wasn't searched EVERY time he went into the subway.

So long as it's predominantly young south Asian men committing acts of mass murder, we should be searching every one of them every chance we get. We should station volunteers outside the homes of every Muslim and specifically empower them to search the members of that household and report the findings to authorities.

We should be searching them every time they go from the living room to the kitchen and back.

And if they have a big problem with that then maybe they should do what they can to change the view of their community. They can start by showing at least as much outrage at the mass murders as they do about an alleged koran being defiled.

I'm afraid that we won't have the political will to do what is necessary in this struggle until we lose a major city in a nuclear attack.

[montag813]

The NYPD says it has no explanation for why Patell might have been stopped three times, but insists the searches are random and that people are selected by a numerical formula. They call profiling “bad policing,” and say a supervisor is there to make sure cops doing the searches follow the department's formula.

An NYPD Sergeant called Michael Savage last week and said that "officially" they oppose profiling, but that cops on the beat are ignoring that and sensibly targeting the people who need to be targeted. I can only hope this is true.

Surely the cops understand that it is the type of traitorous liberalism which led to 9/11 in the first place and that racial profiling is the only way to protect New Yorkers against terrorists.

[gridlock]

I felt humiliated. You know, there's a certain anxiety level every time I walk through a subway station or walk through a security checkpoint,” says Yogi Patell, a CUNY Law student.

I will not say "if you have nothing to hide, why do you have a problem having your bag searched?" I think that is a weak argument, because I don't like having my bag searched, ever, simply because it is an invasion of my privacy.

But "a certain anxiety level"? Why anxiety? Does he really think the police officers are going to harrass or harm him if his bag does not contain anything dangerous?

I have been to some Third-World hellholes in my time, and a certain level of anxiety is completely understandable in those cases, because the young illiterate kid sticking an AK-47 in your ear is not, shall we say, well trained, and the chain of command can be somewhat casual. But these conditions do not exist in New York City.

So you have this man, by his own account, meeting people in the train station and carrying bags onto subway trains while experiencing "a certain anxiety level" every time he walks through a subway station or walks through a security checkpoint. Completely absent any racial aspect, this is just the sort of activity the police are looking out for. You want them to be stopping nervous men carrying bags who are meeting people in the stations and boarding multiple trains, regardless of race.

But Patell questions whether searches are the best use of police resources, and said that even if they are random, “There's a certain amount of stigma with these searches.”

This statement makes no sense, whatsoever. If the searches are random, why is there "a certain amount of stigma"? If the searches are random, they are completely neutral with regards to "stigma".

In any case, even assuming things are completely random, if the police are searching 50,000 out of 2,000,000 passengers a day, it is statistically inevitable that at least a few passengers will be searched three or four times in a day.

[Junior]

Coincidence. In a city of several million odds are coincidences will occur.