Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Detroit's stop-and-frisk policy for just looking suspicious should go over pretty well

DETROIT (WJBK) - The city of Detroit is seeing a new spike in violence. Manpower is down, but murders and shootings are on the rise. Now, police are looking for a solution that is causing controversy in New York City, called stop-and-frisk. 
The tactic allows for more aggressive policing, permitting officers to stop and search citizens simply for looking suspicious, without probable cause.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/23177266/detroit-police-consider-%20stop-and-frisk-policy
I don't anticipate any problems here. Frisking people for looking suspicious should go without a hitch. If the founding fathers wanted this kind of behavior to not happen, they should have put it in some sort of simple to read document. Perhaps they could have come up with 10 simple laws that are easy to read on a one page document, that would effect how a government rules over its people for centuries.

And for those of you who think that this measure will allow for police to simply target a person based on their race, Detroit Police Department Assistant Chief, Erik Ewing, has it all figured out.
"Detroit's population is mostly African American, so it stands to reason that a high number of African Americans will be stopped, based on reasonable suspicion. This is not racial profiling, just officers doing good constitutional police work."
Whew, I feel better now. All is good in Detroit.

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