New York Judge Tamed “Stop and Frisk” – Shootings Up 13%

Posted by Tina

The Daily Mail reports that after a judge restrained local police by ruling their “stop and frisk” tactic for preventing crime was unconstitutional:

The recent ruling to reform the New York Police Department’s controversial ‘stop-and-frisk’ tactic has already led to a sharp rise in shootings, new figures reveal.

In the month after the policy was ruled unconstitutional shootings spiked nearly 13 per cent while gun seizures fell almost a fifth, the figures show.

In the 28 days up to September 8 there were 140 shootings across the city, compared with 124 over the same period last year, according to NYPD statistics.

The judge, a female, is using the same tired old whine that the tactic targets minorities unfairly. She claims she only wanted to create more bureaucracy to monitor the cops:

She said she did not order an end to the stop-and-frisk program but instead insisted that it be carried out legally.

And she defended her remedies, which include the appointment of a monitor to ensure the program’s legality and of a facilitator to conduct meetings with interested parties in neighborhoods where frequent stops occur.

She had also ordered some officers to wear cameras.

She said the vast majority of the overhaul won’t be implemented until the monitor and the facilitator meet with the community, the police department and other stakeholders to create sensible solutions.

‘In short, the only activity at this stage is discussion between the monitor, the facilitator and the parties to develop the remedies,’ she said. ‘No other specific relief is imminent, much less ordered.’

Hey lady, you are a judge not the city’s official busy body. The cities policing body has a department to investigate officers who overstep their authority. The man on the street who believes he’s being targeted can make a complaint to the mayors office, the district attorney’s office, his local police and consult legal aid…but most won’t because they are up to no good! If a citizen doesn’t want to be hassled then he needs to comport himself accordingly…it is a citizens responsibility to his fellow citizens. The cops on the beat know better than anyone who needs to be watched and questioned and who doesn’t in order to make the streets safer for civilized, law abiding citizens…let them do their jobs.