{"id":162,"date":"2013-08-25T23:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T23:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/?p=162"},"modified":"2016-08-11T04:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T04:08:32","slug":"stop-and-frisk-is-judge-scheindlin-on-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"“Stop and Frisk”, Is Judge Scheindlin on Target?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ac9970fa225e9fc8c8772b47bfab9192\"<\/a>After reading several articles on Judge Shira A. Scheindlin\u2019s verdict on the New York Police Department\u2019s \u201cstop and frisk\u201d policy, there are certain conclusions that may be drawn:<\/p>\n

(1) The average individual would personally find it very offensive if a police officer stopped him\/her on the streets of NYC under \u201cstop and frisk\u201d.<\/p>\n

(2) That as much as it is a clearly offensive practice, if it substantially reduces the crime rate in NYC, this policy may be worth the inconvenience.<\/p>\n

(3) The \u201cstop and frisk\u201d policy is not necessarily a racially motivated intervention.<\/b><\/p>\n

(4) Judge Scheindlin should be elected as the new head of the ACLU, the one organization in America that definitively values our personal privacy and rights over our safety and security, making it one of the greatest weapons that terrorists have in this country.<\/p>\n

(5) While there will always be police officers that abuse privilege, one would like to believe that the majority of police officers have the community\u2019s best interests at heart.\u00a0 Condemning police officers as generically evil, requiring civilian monitors, will prevent them from doing their job effectively.\u00a0 No individual works well when someone is looking over their shoulder every minute.\u00a0 Between phone videos, cameras on top of police cars, and traffic cameras, there are already sufficient devices in place to monitor police activities.<\/p>\n

(6) Every time a minority teenager is inadvertently killed in NYC, there is public outrage.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t seem to matter if the teenager has a rap sheet a mile long, is carrying a gun or concealed weapon, or is in the middle of committing a crime, the police officer is condemned for use of excessive force.\u00a0 Why is it that no one seems to blame the parents of the teenager for allowing him\/her out of the house with a weapon in the middle of the night?\u00a0 Why are parents, who have been totally remiss in their responsibilities, so easily let off the hook?<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the most irking of all of Judge Scheindlin\u2019s comments are those classifying \u201cstop and frisk\u201d as racist.\u00a0\u00a0 One can make a strong argument that the greatest underlying cause of crime in NYC is poverty.\u00a0 And if that be true, there may be substantially higher crime rates in certain low-income communities in NYC.\u00a0 And if therein resides a certain ethnic group that dominates that area, whether it be Black, Hispanic, Italian, Orthodox Jewish, Russian, etc., should not those areas be targeted by the police as high risk areas.\u00a0 And is it possible that in these areas that the \u201cstop and frisk\u201d policies could be very effective, particular late at night and in the early hours of the morning, when a large percentage of crimes are committed?\u00a0 Is that racism or is it statistical analysis?<\/p>\n

The trouble with the word \u201cracism\u201d is that it is applied every time a minority member of NYC is shot by a police officer, even if they are guilty as hell.\u00a0 \u00a0Clearly there exist \u201cracist\u201d police officers as well as other members of our society. It is important to note that there is still racism and discrimination in the workplace; in renting apartments; in private clubs (e.g. Augusta National); and in college admissions. But sometimes, there is also \u201creverse racism\u201d, where a minority individual is admitted to a college because he\/she is a minority, or to a private club as a \u201ctoken\u201d member.\u00a0 Our society is imperfect and that will be the case \u201cad infinitum\u201d.\u00a0 Al Sharpton has made a career out of using the \u201cracist\u201d card.\u00a0 He even has his own radio show (certainly not based on talent).\u00a0 Why? Because it is easier to use the word \u201cracism\u201d than to admit that the cause is based on one\u2019s own negligence.<\/p>\n

The New York Police Department will now have to severely curtail the use of \u201cstop and frisk\u201d tactics, thanks to the \u201cleft wing perspective\u201d of Judge Scheindlin.\u00a0 This will allow more criminals on the streets, undoubtedly with more illegal firearms.\u00a0 Perhaps, someday, in one of those great ironies of life, when Judge Shira A. Scheindlin is stalked or harassed late at night by an armed criminal, one that might have been removed from society by \u201cstop and frisk\u201d, she may live to regret her decision.\u00a0\u00a0 It would be a \u201cjust\u201d outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading several articles on Judge Shira A. Scheindlin\u2019s verdict on the New York Police Department\u2019s \u201cstop and frisk\u201d policy, there are certain conclusions that may be drawn: (1) The average individual would personally find it very offensive if a police officer stopped him\/her on the streets of NYC under \u201cstop and frisk\u201d. (2) That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}