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More than 85% of people stopped and frisked by the NYPD are released without an arrest or summons. But just because the police let you go, doesn't mean they forget all about you! The NYPD maintains a database of more than 500,000 people stopped, questioned, frisked, and released each year. And Councilman Peter Vallone wants the department to hit delete.
Vallone has frequently complained about the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy, which hit a record high of 531,159 in 2008. Vallone tells the Daily News, "I support the stop-and-frisk program. But there doesn't seem to be a reason to keep names and addresses of people stopped by police officers and let go." Ironically, those who actually get arrested can have their information sealed if they are acquitted. But if you're just stopped and let go, you're added to the database.
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has told Vallone he has no intention of deleting any names from the database. And a Bloomberg spokesman says, "We agree with Ray Kelly." Mayoral wannabe William Thompson also generally supports the stop-and-frisk, but he just thinks it's "overused." He told the Daily News editorial board yesterday, "Police officers off the record will tell you they're pushed to do stop-and-frisks... It's supposed to be when you have a suspicion. It's not just, well, let me stop every person under the age of 22." But people in their early twenties are suspicious!
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I'm with Vallone on this. If somebody is stopped and has done nothing wrong, there's no justification for keeping that person's name.
This one needs to make it to the supreme court. We already live in a nanny city with mamma Bloomie invading our every other privacy, and now this idiocy. Everyone stopped and frisked for no reason should file a suit to have their innocence and documentation thereof expunged from these Nazis.
Pretty much right on, but you have your cause and effect backwards. The stop and frisk program came first, and the nanny state (nanny city-state?) followed. They fucked with poor people first, and when no one objected...
right on! Bloomberg is totally scheming to kill all the jews. First they came for the smokers, but I was not a smoker...
next thing bloomberg/kelly wants is a picture to go with that stop and frisk database info.
I can't wait until the Mashup of the Stop and Frisk Database with the Cell Phone Database. Excellent! Who needs constitutional rights these days anyway?
Just wondering...all of you who are against this invasion of privacy (as I am); how many are also in favor of government run health care that would give the feds complete access to all your medical info, history, DNA etc?
These records should be maintained because they give an accurate assessment of how police resources are misdirected, who the targets of stop and frisk are, and can help them pursue legal remedies against the NYPD.
New York City, the new East Germany. Unbelievable. Just like the Stasi. Ray Kelly learned from the East Germans. Everyone's a criminal.
Terrific. Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg. You just have to set up a network of informants. What? Has that been done?
New York's nothing like East Germany. They had universal health care.
keep accurate records that way theres proof that your being targeted, harassed or racially profiled.
Valline being a master liar and manipulator (aka politician) is playing this violin for the wrong reasons on purpose.
Records of repeated stops for the same person in a selected period of time will statistically show a pattern. Thats how the subway bag search guy won his lawsuit, its statistically impossible to be randommly searched or be accurately described as suspicious on a regular basis.
What Vallone and the NYPOD want is to be released from liability and statistical trending.
They already have all your info. When you signed up for government, employer, or private health insurance, you gave away all privacy.