NYCLU Teaching Teens Their Rights in Cop Interactions

i thought the quote was pretty obvious.

disproportionatel amount of unneccesary and humiliating police interactions in minority neighborhoods.

you dont see that because you think that thats where the criminals are, but the crime is manufactured based on agressive actions that would not be tolerated if your white kids were treated the same way.

but again you dont see that because you prob think minority kids are criminals and should be treated that way.

remember the bushwick32

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-28/news/school-arrest-training-ended-up-giving-bushwick-community-high-school-a-black-eye

the media and the police lied and lied and you prob believed every word of it.

Wow the Law department settled for almost 16 grand each, minus their lawers cut. I hope they enjoyed all those new sneakers. I guess it cheaper than the City going through with the case.

My favorite line in the article:

"Callender says the training paid off on the day of the arrest. This time, he was prepared—unlike in his previous arrests."

I'd love to know how many arrests and convictions the Bushwick32 had before and since this horrible injustice.

Disproportionate to what?

Are doctors ordering a disproportionate amount of mamagrams for women?

Whould equal stops of elderly asians make you feel better?

Wow, I can't spell today.

VALLONE is incorrect

" Kids only need to know one word when it comes to the police and that's 'cooperate' "

not true,

carrying a small amount of weed is legal and only a non criminal VIOLATION

pulling it out to show a cop even when he says

'empty your pockets' or 'show me what you have and its will make it easier.." (A TRICK)

becomes an Arrestable offense a MISDEMEANOR.

http://wcbstv.com/local/nyc.marijuana.arrests.2.711645.html

The NYPD has found easy ways to trick or intimidate young people so they allow a search, or even just take out their marijuana and hand it over to the officers.

Here's how the police do it. NYPD commanders direct officers to stop and question many young people and make arrests for possessing "contraband." In 2008, the NYPD made more than half a million recorded stop and frisks and an unknown number of unrecorded stops, disproportionately in black, Latino and low-income neighborhoods. By far, the most common contraband young people might possess is a small amount of marijuana.

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/141866/the_epidemic_of_pot_arrests_in_new_york_city

Disproportionate to what?

Are doctors ordering a disproportionate amount of mammograms for women?

Whould equal stops of elderly asians make you feel better?

These kids understand any interaction by any authority figure to be disrespect. A cop standing near a subway entrance, a school safety agent daring to ask if they attend the school they are attempting to enter, etc.

The NYCACLU released a study last year that showed that the safer schools that don't have cops in them are safer than the dangerous ones that do, wow! informative. To the NYCACLU this means the absence of NYPD makes the schools safer.

They cry wolf like it is going out of style, and are making it harder to the few kids that want to get work done in school.

There was a strip search of female students by a male teacher in a school recently... those kids needed to know their rights. (I know it wasn't cops, but it's the same idea)

It's sad that we need things like this in school today, but let's be realistic, violence and drugs are serious problems!

I agree 100% with this card. Knowing your rights is the best bulwark against not just the remote possibility of police brutatlity, but also police stupidity, which is in no short supply.

After reading the card, I think it's a good thing. It does not teach kids that the police are the enemy; it just lets them know their legal rights and protections, explains how to contact the CCRB and how to conduct themselves if they are arrested. The Gothamist description of the card is somewhat skewered; the actual text of that passage reads "you can file a complaint if police at your school hit you, curse at you, touch you inappropriately, make comments about your race, religion, gender or sexually (sic) orientation, (or) disrespect you."

Given the amount of police brutality and terrible cops we have in this city, it's information that's helpful to EVERYONE.

I've never had any problems with the police, on the contrary, but seeing the news about police brutality (against cyclist for example), there should also be one of these pamphlets for cops.

Heck, one for each one of us!

Heaven forbid people be aware of their constitutional rights.

agreed, but this type of shit is going to cause major headaches:

"if a student feels "disrespected," that's enough of a basis to lodge a formal complaint against school safety officers."

reminder: we're talking about teens here -- they always feel disrespected.

seriously... "call a lawyer", "Remain silent"?

I understand they need training for future infractions, but can't they get these pamphlets at bail bonds stores?

Of COURSE they're going to recommend running to a lawyer. The ACLU is COMPRISED of "human rights" lawyers.

Look, the economy is hurting everyone. The NYCLU is trying to drum up some business. At the taxpayers expense of course. Why not? Everyone seems to be doing it.

I love the New York Criminal Liberties Union.

I hear Chrissy Brodigan and the Hipster Grifter are looking for jobs, maybe they can represent you.

usually your comments are readable, but damn, what the hell are you trying to say?

Well I tried to combine a plan on acronyms with sarcasm and now realize I should only do one at a time.

Redo: I do not like what the NYCLU is trying to do and I agree that it is undermining the NYPD and they're obligations to protect schools.

They provide a handful of examples where the NYPD didn't need to interject (using the excuse that our resources could have been used elsewhere), but they fail to provide any information where NYPD was necessary, or did a good job.

Of course we then fall into the "it's impossible to calculate how many crimes were prevented" category and then we all move on with our lives after we realize that there aren't any real issues to address.