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Stop and Frisk Law
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Background Information
Invasion of Privacy
Counterargument
Stop and Frisk Law
- 150,000 arrests that resulted from those stops, only 1.5% of them , ended in jail senteces and only .1% of those arrests ended in convictions for violent crimes
Racism
By: Sophie Gianaris
- Supporters of the law argure that is drops crime rates, but in reality it does not actually prevent crime.
- The Stop and Frisk Law is very ractist in many ways.
- Promotes racial profiling
- The Stop and Frisk Law is a major invasion of privacy on individuals.
- Criminals are very afraid of the cops.
- When police officers conduct unconstitutional searches just based of a suspicion it clouds their judgment.
- Others may argue that the Stop and Frisk Law is benefitial and a good way to keep high crime areas protected.
- Many think it's the only way to cure high crime.
- Some think it lessens the murder rate.
- Shooting decline in 2014.
- Some said that the practice of Stop and Frisk is necessary to protect civilians and get unwanted crime off the street.
- They go the area where the crime is happening and search for suspicious people
- Only 10% of the stops resulted in arrests or summons.
- The standard for making stops is reasonable suspicion.
- Studies have shown that African American and Latino arrestees faced hasher punishments than White Defendents.
- Majority of the stops were young African American and Latino males.
- They would stop people in certain clothing such as hoodies and sagging pants.
- 90% of the 21,651 individuals that were stopped would have been African American or Hispanic
- This is an example of indirect racial profiling
- The police stop people that fit the description.
- Judegments are usually based on race.
- 90% of the time the people are innocent
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