Posted on 09/21/2016 2:18:51 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Stop and frisk is an unreasonable practice. Put yourself in my shoes. I carry a handgun frequently. On rare occasions, I even conceal it. If I walk down a street in my town and the police ask if they can frisk me because they noticed a bulge under my shirt, the response will be some variation of NO. Absent some level of probable cause, they have no right to search me, although they could (arguably) do a Terry frisk.
Why should I or anyone else who is merely walking down the street have to deal with that BS?
The crime problem has to with scum. Usually known scum who have all sorts of prior convictions. Take those scum off the street and the problem goes away. Another alternative is to arm the living daylights out of the populace and let them work the criminality problems as tradition dictates.
Stop and frisk may pay some dividends, but it fuels a “papers please” mentality that has no place in a free society.
So is same-sex marriage, if that is your criteria for constitutionality.
Anyone remember TSA?
It works.
Lets stick with “Reasonable and articulable suspicion.”
We have case law that is well established in these matters in Terry vs. Ohio.
However, there are places and times that need a strong and assertive police presence to suppress crime.
I’m actually a little surprised at the number of people here supporting stop-and-frisk. Regardless of the effect it may have had, it’s an extremely slippery slope.
If someone is seen throwing gang signs, acting suspiciously, that’s one thing. But to just stop someone and frisk them...in the hope that something is found...that’s a problem.
What else will then become acceptable, and if you think it is, then ask yourself this, “how many laws are repealed versus laws created every year?”
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