Posted on 08/24/2013 4:55:00 PM PDT by Daffynition
Nypd beat cops posted a police-union warning in every precinct yesterday instructing officers not to go above and beyond the call of duty or risk losing their jobs because of the new stop-and-frisk laws, The Post has learned.
All officers should take action if he or she sees a crime in progress, or if he or she sees that his or her life or the life of another person is in danger . . . [But] all officers should be careful not to initiate any law-enforcement action that could be construed as violating the new legislation and subject the officer to legal action, read the memo by Patrolmens Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch.
Several rank-and-file cops said yesterday that they plan on following Lynchs advice rather than risk their careers.
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There was a guy who a friend of mine knew. In his high school graduating class circa 1981. A bunch of them went to college and some of them went to work. He went to work for the New York City sanitation department. They all laughed at him.
You want to be a garbage man?
He retired at age 50 and is now collecting thousands of dollars a month as a pension. The joke is on the taxpayers.
He is a genius.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. If NY’ers were allowed to carry you would see quick spike in thugs getting killed then a dramatic decrease in crime overall.
“Stopped”, in the sense of being spoken to...not stopped and frisked.
And the stopped are largely the same people repeatedly in different places, not a random sample. The lawsuit plaintiffs were people with long criminal records recruited to complain, and evidence suggests in some cases paid to complain.
A common example is the crowd on a corner, exchanging items with passing cars or doing gang stuff; or people coming out of what are supposed to be buildings they don’t live in and aren’t guests of residents whose landlords have submitted letters to the police asking them to enforce no-trespassing rules; and people waiting around secure doorways looking to tailgate in.
The policy is Stop, Question, and Frisk...so calling it Stop and Frisk is right there an attempt to deceive the drive-by-offended. I know black people that have lived in those neighborhoods for decades who have never been stopped beyond basically saying “Good day” to the officers.
Now I do think it’s gotten too persistent under Bloomberg, but that’s a finer line than those who are wailing are willing to admit.
Yup. The basic problem with guns is that not enough good people are carrying them.
Even if what you say is true, we’re still talking about a program that allows the police to stop and question innocent people going about their business.
And make no mistake, that’s exactly what we’re talking about - innocent people. The vast majority of these stops result in no further action as well, meaning that even when given the opportunity to question and search, the police couldn’t find that the citizens had done anything wrong at all.
Allowing the police to stop, question and search innocent people on the street is anathema to a free society.
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