Gothamist: Sharpton Threatens to Sue City Over Stop-and-Frisks

Shmurf

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:53:47 -0500

Old politics ! I wonder if the police were stopping and Frisking White people would it be accepted . I know the answer to this question, the sad fact is those codonning it are the ones viewing it happening . The next time you see a cop stopping someone to voilate there right just stop and think to yourself . That could be me, How would you feel ? Think about it .

Shmurf

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:34:17 -0500

Screw you "Get real" How the hell would you feel if the cops stopped you each and every time you stepped foot out your home on the way to Work, or wherever ? See people like you fail to put yourselves in the shoes of those affected . I don't have a record, and haven't commited any crimes so why is it that I should be stopped and frisked by some cop ? You all don't realize that most of these "Stop N Frisks" are racially biased . It has nothing to do with a possiblity of the person there stopping being involved in committing a crime . The cops have all this technology at there disposal (Databases, full of suspects with pictures, Updates of suspects)so there is no plusable reason for stopping people at random just because of the way they Dress, The Color of there skin, Or the way they carry themselves . I wonder what would happen if the cops started stopping and frisking all White people ! How would you all feel about being subjected to that sort of treatment ! You all would be filing lawsuit out your collective asses ! No excuses !

hr

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:06:58 -0500

he's the black john liu

BODYGUARDS

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:32:52 -0500

The merit of the lawsuit may be based on comparisons of the Detailed Physical Desciptons reported by those victims of crimes versus the Detailed Physical Characteristics of those who were stopped and frisked as a result of those reports. If the correlation is not reasonably similar and a pattern could be established - then lack of reasonable suspiscion could be litigated - and even some of the summons issued could be questioned

C

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:04:59 -0500

the only thing i can think of is that he can't torch down his "national action network" headquarters to collect on $ anymore after doing it too many times before, so he's gotta do this. hey al, what do you recommend as a solution? should we be looking for/stopping and frisking male/white/~50 years old if the description of a perp is male/black/~19 years old?

Shmurf

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:37:11 -0500

Anything Al Sharpton touches he ignites!!!! This is no different, He's the equvilent Of a lawyer chasing an ambulance down the block !

The Edge

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:57:25 -0500

The hair police should file a lawsuit against the good Reverand for having bad hair. Really bad. And his stylist, too. Yeah.

statistic

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:57:54 -0500

are racial break downs of the stop and frisk arrests available? does anyone know how they correlate to the percentages of those stopped?

maxwell smartie

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:50:39 -0500

that's true, last week I recall lot's of whites were on the pages of gothamist and the tv news. I'm adding the drug related family in Suffolk who were shot in a home invasion. so, that's the jersey city DUI cop, the family of 4 upstate in a fire then found to be a murder, the SI retired cop murder of his ex-wife and the stripper case.

Dude

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:50:18 -0500

Um don't dress like a thug and maybe you won't be pulled over?

edEx

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:47:49 -0500

Perhaps if Al and his cronies stepped to plate to condemn and end all black violence, maybe just maybe the frisking percentage would go down... actually not maybe, statistically, it would go down. As it stands, Al Sharpton is a racist douche bag with one aganda: shameless self promotion.

get real

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:35:41 -0500

"..blacks are stopped 55% of the time during stop-and-frisk searches,.." We need to stop & frisk 'em even more. After all, they do commit 87% of all crimes.