>> resulted in arrests of criminals 20% of the time
And the 4 out of 5 that weren’t criminals: what about them and their rights?
A 20% success rate does not justify molesting the rest of us law abiding 80%.
It’s an infringement of our right to go peaceably about our business.
Good! It violates 1st, 4th and 5th amendments and even right of association.
If a person is not suspected of a specific crime that would call for search and seizure then LEO should know it’s unlawful for them to do so and Under Color Law could be illegal.
Jackboots not required to do that effectively.
/johnny
Nor does the police have the power, nor should they be accosting and harassing the individual, if there is no actual breaking of the law.
The next step is stopping everyone, just to see if they have a weapon on them.
In order to combat drug dealing in the public areas of buildings, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office developed the Trespass Affidavit Program (TAP).In buildings where drugs are sold, tenants complain about the constant foot traffic by unknown individuals. These unwelcome visitors often loiter in the public areas to sell or use narcotics. Sometimes dealers act as doormen, directing buyers and intimidating residents. Changing locks and posting signs forbidding trespassing is frequently ineffective, and law abiding tenants and landlords can feel powerless to rid their buildings of drug trafficking and the accompanying disorder.
The Trespass Affidavit Program, staffed by our Community Affairs Unit, gives communities an opportunity to change these conditions. When the Community Affairs Unit receives confidential complaints about drug trafficking activity in a particular building, it contacts landlords and registers them in TAP. Landlords must then post signs throughout their building reading “Tenants and Their Guests ONLY,” provide the police with a complete list of tenants and keys to their building, and permit police officers to conduct “vertical patrols” in the building. When necessary, officers may make arrests for criminal trespassing.
Currently, more than 3,200 buildings are enrolled in TAP. The program is a valuable tool for law enforcement, allowing it to address prostitution complaints, burglary and assault locations, vacant building problems, and privately-owned empty lots where trespassing is a common occurrence.
You’re as full of excrement as a Xmas Goose. Are you sure you aren’t a Chicom plant? In Communist China the way the NYPD has been operating is SOP! It is incredible to me that anyone would give up their Constitutional Rights in this manner. Go home!
Felonious thugs have the right to carry, not law abiding citizens.
This king of ‘law’ is another brick in a totalitarian wall being constructed by liberal elites.
They’re also the same people when faced with a REAL criminal do everything they can to free him, reduce a sentence, or half way house them before their time.
Liberal elites don’t give a damn about crime - it’s control they’re after ... and not even ‘control’ of criminals - but of citizens.
Laws like this sound good on the surface, but we know who’s behind them - as our founding fathers also knew...