One of the biggest controversies is, do officers target certain people because of race in order to stop and frisk. Many officers use the argument that a suspect “fit the description.” But the Washington DC use a broad description such as “black male with dark clothes.” This description can almost fit every African American male that is in Washington DC. A lookout is someone who is in charge stationed to keep watch for danger or trouble. What is even more ironic is that the Washington DC police department is 52% African American. And the officers are still targeting people that are of their same race. But they target people in a way that is unnecessary and bias. I do not think this is right. If you have to do a stop and frisk than the officer needs to do it for the right reasons not because the suspect looks suspicious. The officer needs to have probable cause and reasonable suspicion in order to start a stop and frisk. This is a big topic because this is how the public loses trust and companionship with the officers. They tend to not trust them and see them as a threat and not there to help and protect. Officers need to be looked at as there to help the public and be there to make the public aware of the issues in the community. Officers are also there to enforce the law but to do it in a professional manor. The Washington DC police department was breaking the law because they were making unlawful search and seizures and causing issues with the public instead of being there to help in times that they are needed. Having trust with the police officers lower the crime rate in the community because the public is scared to disappoint the officers. #notaplumber003
The video shown in this post puts the police department interviewed in Washington, DC to shame. After doing thorough research on the topic of racial profiling in hand with stopping and frisking, the host of the video found that out of the 22,800+ individuals he researched for this statistic, he found that 8 out of every 10 were african american (the study was done from crime reports made from 2010-2016). In response to this statistic, the police department stated that the reasoning behind this was simply that oftentimes their “look-outs” (description of a suspect after a crime was just committed) are often extremely vague and most of the time they are of african americans. After finding this out, the host of the show attempted to reach out to the chief of the department (Chief Peter Newsham of the Metropolitan PD) many, many times. Every time the department received his request for the interview, they either flat out rejected him, ignored him, or told him to meet with someone else. This made the host (Eric Flak) want to delve deeper into the reasoning behind the chief’s refusal to meet with him. Eventually, the digging done by Eric and his crew brought to light a baffling revelation- the metropolitan police weren’t following one of the key laws put into place to help prevent unjust stopping and frisking. The law states that very specific notes and reports need to be filled out with every single stop and frisk in order to provide accurate statistics on who was being stopped, for what reason, as well as the ethnicity of the individuals to ensure racial profiling wasn’t evident. After being put on the spot for his choices and orders to not follow the law, the chief was humiliated, along law enforcement agencies all over the country, due to being able to get away from following such an important law for so long. After watching this video, it is pretty evident that racial profiling was a major issue for stopping and frisking, and is still to this day in some areas that are still working on some much needed reform. Ideally a few years down the road, these statistics showing racial profiling with stopping and frisking will have evened out at least to be a bit more proportional to the populations. GMan003
In this video they discussed what stop and frisk looks like as a citizen under going this procedure. At the beginning of the video, they describe the statistics behind stop and frisk. In 2010-2016 there was 22,887 stop and frisk events. Out of these numbers, eight out of every ten people where African- American. Which is roughly about seven African-Americans who get stopped and frisked daily in DC. These statistics are truly eye opening as it makes me question the true intent of stop and frisk. It almost appears that some officers and some agencies are abusing this procedure. To some it may raise a lot of doubts in the system. The underlining question that is concerning for citizen is, does stop and frisk encroach on their personal rights? Do officers really have the legal right to stop and frisk an individual when and wherever they feel the need to? The video then interviewed a few random citizens for their opinion. The majority expressed a great discomfort towards this procedure. Some said it made them feel like they were taken advantage of and they were being discriminated for their race and heritage. They thought it was a lot of racial profiling as most of the stop and frisk were towards African-Americans. Through this video I learned there were two types of body searches. The first being for guns and or any kind of weapons. The officer performs over clothes pat down; they are only looking for bulges where weapons may be. While the other search being extremely more invasive as they search for contraband. The officer has the legal right to be invasive when looking for drugs. However, they need to have reasonable suspicion in order to perform the search legally. I think this video was interesting as to displayed the heated controversy with stop and frisk. It broadened my personal opinion for stop and frisk. -CoalRoller003
Stop and Frisk Eric Flack talks about the issues of the Washington DC Police Department and their use of stop and frisk. Stop and Frisk means the officer can stop someone and ask them questions. If they feel like they have enough reasonable suspicion they can go through the outer clothing of the person in question. The PD did not start collecting data of the results of stop and frisk. When the media got ahold of that report, they blasted the police department and the city for not doing that. The city then built the budget around that so the Police Department could start collecting the data. When the PD went to get the ability to be able to do that they just kept the money because it was way over that budget. So again when the media got ahold of the information that the PD had to start the collection, the community started to really speak out. The news people and different organizations of the city, started going going asking people if they had been stop and frisk by officers. The results of it showed that a lot more African American people had been stoped and frisked than white of any other types of people. When the Police Chief was asked by the media to sit down and discuss if, they were told they would sit and talk or sometime even ignored. The local media emailed and called over 15 times to discuss with the PD offices. When asked at a city council meeting, the assistant mayor had no idea about the situation. The city didn’t seem to care about it to much. The city has been avoiding the reporting stop and frisk law. -chicubs003
The video of Stop and Frisk was very interesting in my opinion. In the video, Eric Flack spent time looking into and speaking about the stop and frisk procedures and problems with the Washington, D.C. Police Department. The Video showed an interview with a man who videotapes police when they are arresting or searching African Americans. Over his time of taping the interactions of police ad the black community, he has found that there have been many situations were police abuse their powers or treat this population of people differently. Between 2010 and 2016 there were thousands of people stopped and frisked. Out of those thousands of people, eight of ten of the individuals stopped were of black heritage. When I first heard this statistic it was a little alarming, but at the same time, it is to be addressed that this was in a population of majority african americans. At any rate, this is an alarming statistic to see. Many of the community members who were stopped were released upon the realization that they were in fact the wrong subject they were looking for. This is a common theme of african american individuals to be mistaken for the wrong suspect police are on the lookout for. Many times the description is not very descriptive and could be many individuals in a small block radius. One comment in the video said that a description given of a black male wearing a black hoodie and jeans could describe almost all of Howard University in Washington, D.C. The video mentioned that the police department finally admitted they were not keeping track of the stop and frisk data like they should have been. This is one of the biggest steps in the process of changing that statistic that the majority of the stops were on african american individuals. Yet, the D.C. police department has fallen behind in the very long process of changing the mindset in policing, relating to stop and frisk procedures. -AS003
Stop and frisk is an issue that causes many problems across the nation. One place that has a major problem with stop and frisk is our nations capital Washington D.C. From 2010 to 2016 there were 22 thousand plus cases of stop and frisk. From that massive number 8 of the 10 people stopped were African American. The Police force tried to justify that number by stating that 8 out of the 10 lookouts were African Americans. But the lookouts were so vague that they could be almost anyone in the city. In one occasion a youtuber was walking home at night and was question by an officer driving through the neighborhood. I was surprised that the officer asked the youtuber if he had a gun. If you had a weapon why would you ever tell the officer you did. I would understand if the officer was conducting a frisk on the individual and asked if he had any weapons on them, but driving by and asking is just being lazy and looking to start a problem. Another instance of police misuse of stop is when 4 officers stopped a college professor when he was walking in his own neighborhood. The officers could not believe that could live in that nice of a neighborhood. People might say that this only happens with a white officer and a African American citizen, but in that case it was four African American officers who stopped the African American professor. When the narrator tied to get an explanation to why this is happening from the chief of police, he was denied many times. Even when the chief of police stated that he would give an interview, the narrator was still denied. It was nice to see that the chief of police finally had to take the blame for how bad the problem was. -ClarkKent003
This video is one of the recent reports showing ongoing racial disparities in encounters between police and members of the general public in the country. The lack of data collection is the major impediment to understand how stop and frisk policy is actually carried out on the streets. Several improvement need to be made to provide a greater transparency and make it possible for supervisors to fully review stops and frisks. our police officers must follow and remember the rights of people in the community. Reasonable suspicion exists when the information known to the member of the service would make an ordinarily prudent and cautious police officer under the circumstances believe criminal activity is in hand. The officer must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the person stopped of the criminal conduct. The officer must be able to articulate specific facts establishing justification for the stop., hunches or gut feelings are not sufficient. As we see from books frisk may not be conducted to discover evidence or the proceeds or instrumentality of a crime. A police officer cannot frisk bag of item of personal property unless the officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous and the bag or item could contain a weapon and is within the person reach. GUSII 003
Stop and frisk is a law that was created in 1968 by the United States Supreme Court. An officer cannot stop and frisk a citizen without probable cause. With probable cause, the officer is allowed to do a full search which is usually enforced when looking for drugs. This means the officers can look through any and everything. With reasonable suspicion, officers are allowed to frisk which is usually done when searching for weapons. Frisking is only a pat down. In Washington D.C., there is an average of seven African Americans that get stopped each day. Eight out of every ten stops are on African Americans. Most of the people that were interviewed believe that officers stop them because of racial profiling. There are tons of innocent African Americans that are stopped each day because they “fit a reported description”. Officers need to stop people for the right reasons not because they “look suspicious”. Majority of black people wear the same type of clothing and have the same hairstyles, while searching in a black community, will the officers stop every black person they see walking? As the officers stop and frisk, sometimes they go over board and try to turn a reasonable suspicion into a probable cause. Unbelievingly, 52% of the officers in Washington D.C. are African American and are bias towards other African Americans. It is not always white officers. I believe African Americans will always be seen as the bad guys. The officers are supposed to report every stop and frisk they do. Washington D.C.’s police department lacks these actions. When reporting stop and frisks, the only information they reported was the reason they were stopped, date, age, race, and location. Washington D.C.s police department needs to do a better job and learn off of other police departments. –pieface003
I think this video is a perfect representation when it comes to the broken relationships, and the amount of racial profiling in our law enforcement agencies. Statistics show that blacks, and latinos are stopped significantly more than any other race. But I think we let a lot of these police agencies get away with things like this. I don't think that we question them enough, about there stop and frisk policies. We should constantly be asking questions such as how do police legally carry out their jobs, and how does leadership maintain the accountability of their officers. Stop and frisk is probably one of the most controversial police terms around. This news report showed actually how bad it was in Washington D.C. The video stated that in between the years 2010-2016 that there was 22,000 people who were stopped and frisked, and every 8 out of 10 of those people were black. That is actually an astonishing number, I think the leadership in that police department needs to do a better job of holding their officers more accountable for who they are stopping, and searching. The video also stated that the reason for all of these stop and frisk was because these people fit the description of other suspects. The Police Chief said that people are only stopped because of lookouts. I think that is a horrible excuse, you can clearly see the amount of racial profiling in this police department just by looking at the data, and statistics. You can clearly see trends of what race groups are stopped more in this city. Another thing that I found very interesting, is that 52 percent of Washington D.C police department is African American. The video also stated that most of these stop and frisk happen in wards 7 and 8 which are mostly made of blacks and latinos. I-Like-Cereal003
The video shows one of the more recent reports showing ongoing racial disparities and encounters between police and members of the general public. The lack of data collection is the main problem. This data shows how stop and frisk policy is actually carried out on the streets. Changes need to be made to provide a greater form of transparency and make it possible for supervisors to review stops and frisks. Police officers in our communities must follow and remember the rights of people that live within the community. Reasonable suspicion exists when the information known to officers that would make an ordinarily prudent and cautious police officer under the circumstances believe criminal activity is in hand. The officer must have an objective basis for suspecting the person stopped of the criminal conduct. The officer must be able to articulate specific facts establishing justification for the stop or gut feelings are not sufficient. In the video when asked at a city council meeting, the assistant mayor had no idea about the situation. The city had been avoiding the reporting when it came to the stop and frisk law. -CUBSFAN003
The stop and frisk case Terry V. Ohio of 1968 has brought about a lot of controversy with some Officers using this to harass minorities. The lack of accountably by the Washington DC police Chief for his department is embarrassing. Statistics show between 2010-2016 22,887 people were stopped and frisked and of that 22,887 eight out ten were people of color. There is clearly a legitimacy issue here. What is the use for their so-called change division if the Chief is still allowing officers to violate laws to achieve a high quota. Another issue is the fact that these officers feel its ok to use these alleged “look-outs” to justify probable cause to stop and frisk someone. Who or what deems this person as a creditable “look-out? Also, I feel that department did not keep up with the comprehensive Stop and Frisk Data because this would immediately show that the department was targeting one specific group of people. Also, if the police Chief was unclear or as he stated “didn’t understand” what was needed and the cost for the NEAR ACT this should have been brought up when he agreed to implement this in his department. Not being able to prioritize is not a good enough excuse when dealing with harassment and bias. The video that was recorded of the officer “probing” the black male during the search is a prime example of why these officers should be held accountable for their actions during none justifiable stop and frisk. Jadist003
Stop and frisk is a major problem in America. Does it help stop and or prevent crime or does it cause even more problems in the minority community. This video talks about how Washington DC are affected by stop and frisk and how the the police department are not following a law that was meant to fix the stop and frisk issue. This reporter stopped to ask twelve people on the streets at random about their experiences with the police. Ten of the people experienced and or witnessed what they believed to be racial profiling. Often times black people feel when they are stopped and questioned because of the color of their skin. Which was showed by the stop and frisk data that the reporter received from the police department and it showed from 2010 to 2016 recorded about 22,887 stop and frisk incidents which means that 8 out of every 10 people who were stop and frisked were African American. I think sometimes it could be possibly because of racial profiling or sometimes they are just doing their job. There are some cases where the person that there looking for doesn’t even look like the kid or adult that they have stop and frisked. But let’s not pretend like there is no such thing as African American criminals which there are so it’s kinda fifty fifty. You really can’t say the intentions of the officer unless you were there or the person looks completely different from a offender that is on the loose. Which the reporter did look into what’s known as a lookout which is a suspect description given to officers released to the public. But when they looked on their twitter page the lookouts were not very descriptive. Most of them only described the offender as black male with dark clothing on. How can that be the only thing that is posted? I know a lot of black males who wear black clothes so does that make them criminals because there black and where dark clothes? I feel they should do a better job at giving a description to help better prevent this issue. Batman003
This video really touched on a tough subject and showed things through the perspective of the citizens. The city of Washington D.C. among many other cities, was guilty of primarily stopping citizens that were African American. The officers seemed to be targeting African Americans and it was made illegal, but in Washington D.C., the police department ignored the regulations made to improve the situation and refused to speak with news outlets about it. Several of the people who were interviewed in the video stated that they had been stopped by police officers countless of times in their lives although they had not done anything illegal. This issue definitely raises a few questions. The biggest one has to be why are they being targeted so much? Through some research done by the reporter, it was discovered that reports on their social media of people to lookout for had extremely vague descriptions. The suspects that were African American were described as black, male, and most times wearing dark clothing. That description is absolutely terrible and could fit a good percentage of the population. The police department needs to change their descriptions for sure. With extremely high stop rates with African American people, it creates a bad image and major problem with distrust of police officers. Our police departments need to be doing whatever they can to prevent these kinds of things from happening. -Smokeybear003
This video was done by a local news reporter who did a great deal of research into the Washington DC Police Department and more specifically the statistics on stop and frisk. He was started by the number he saw being a longtime resident of the nation's capital, he found that Washington D.C. From 2010 to 2016 there were 22 thousand plus cases of stop and frisk. From that massive number 8 of the 10 people stopped were African American. The Police force tried to justify that number by stating that 8 out of the 10 lookouts were African Americans. But the lookouts were so vague that they could be almost anyone in the city. Another major problem that was addressed as far as stop and frisk goes is the data collection. More specifically the lack of Data collection that is so important to preventing these outrageous numbers. The even go the funding that was supposed to help them getting the data collecting process started and when they did not collect the data a lot of people wanted answers from the city leaders to the media. They city council made the police chief start the data collection. When the media heard about the meeting between the police chief and the city resulting in the police department being mandated that they had to start the collection, the community started to really speak out. The news people and different organizations of the city, started going going asking people if they had been stop and frisk by officers. If they can get any idea of how to better police the community by looking at the data collection then it will better the relationship with the people of the community and lower some of the tension that we saw in this video. -RHB003
This video was put together pretty well and does a good job highlighting the problem with stop and frisk in the United States. Something the video mentioned that I thought was a good point was that you can look at each individual case and you might be able to find some rationale as to why that stop was made. However when looking at the data it becomes obvious stop and frisk is being used disproportionately against minorities and poor areas. Plus it’s just been used as a tool for police to be able to arbitrarily harass people in their own neighborhoods. It’s hard to imagine how I’d feel if I had to worry about being frisked by police every time I just wanted to go home or anywhere really. After awhile it’s easy to imagine that I would be pretty frustrated with police and lose trust completely. I don’t know that it’s worth the deterioration of police and community relations just to catch a few people every once in awhile. I think another thing that was problematic was the chief of police refusing to talk to anyone about this. It seems to me that if he were running his police department legitimately there’d be no problems with him talking about his department with pride. I definitely feel like we need to continue to focus on improving relationships between the community and the police and I think modifying stop and frisk to severely limit the police ability to randomly stop people on the street is a good way to start that. Avatar003
Profiling, Profiling and more Profiling! For 8/10 individuals to be Stopped and Frisked in Washington D.C from 2010-2016 are African American is Racial profiling. "we stopped you because you fit the description of a suspect we are looking for is the biggest hunk of malarkey I've heard. They just described my cousin. Here is the issue that i have instead of chasing the real suspects they are chasing and idea of a suspect and picking up every African American and busting them on drug charges. Should the be using drugs no but resources are being wasted each time a false Stop and Frisk is being implicated. Another note two is that even thought the arresting officer is probably black too 52% chance of them being black has a greater cause for them to profile racially against another african american. Just because they want to express their authority and they don't want to be subjected to not taking action against their own . The other fact that remains is that DC did file their stop and frisks to be collected for data. that their lets me know that they knew what they are doing is wrong and they didn't want to admit to any wrong doing. Look how much the chief dodged the reporter about the on going stop and frisk issue. Protocols need to be followed properly...Casket003
This video gave amazing examples on how stop and frisk can be taking advantage of and how it is losing the trust of so many minorities. This video showed that 52% where african american and that's about 7 black people stopped a day. This was getting so out of hand the department was actually found guilty for not following an filling out proper data by law on stop and frisk Also hearing the personal stories of those that were a victim of this dix=discrimination was heard to hear and I'm telling you right now I have nor probably will never be stopped like that just based on the fact im a white female and that's not right nor fair and it's clear we need to fix this to regain trust in the communities its effecting. How are we going to expect them to trust us when we do things like this. There is a pattern and we need to start changing this not just for the benefit for the community but for the police and other agencies to have that trust to be able to have the community reach out not run and hide information. -pizza003
After rewatching this video it had taken me by surprise. The newscaster did his hardest to get the best information to make sure this was done right. When he said that out of the 8/10 stop and frisks that had taken place a majority of them were young African Americans males. When given the information that he was told about they were stopped on a description fitting a crime how is that fair. Instant profiling was a major factor that consumed D.C’s police department. The newscaster was right on how the stop and frisks are being misused on minorities. For instance when they showed the officer on the home video misusing stop and frisk and violated young male by checking his prostate and acting inappropriate on the loudspeaker in the squad car. It just blows my mind that there are people like that working in uniform. Then when the office of the Chief kept making the news run in circles just to get a small interview was irritating. Then they sent someone who had no experience to talk about the factors that followed stop and frisks. Then the information showed up and the chief had to show what his officers were doing incorrectly on the stop and frisks. It is truly remarkable how this came to be. I for one am glad to have watched this video to get this type of information I would of never thought of hearing or seeing. -MrWadeWilson003
This video is focused on the state Washington D.C. and how their stop and frisk is unfair. Also the racial disparities going on between the police and the community members. Eric Flack is a investigative reporter born and raised in Washington D.C. so this is a personal topic for him. He also says he wants his city to be the best it can be which I think is a good thing as a person in the community. Eric spent a lot of time interviewing and talking to people in Washington D.C. and trying to talk to the shieff which didn't work out. He spent 4 months trying to get in and interview with the sheriff and ended up seeing him in public. In september 12 people were chosen at random to talk about their encounter with police, 10 of them had stories of them experiencing or witnessing what they believe to be racial profiling. The black people feel they are only being stopped and question by the police because of their color of their skin. A lady getting interviewed says “our stories all probably sound alike or similar and if their similar then they have to be true.” This shows how many stories have been told by the same people and this should not be the case. Between 2010-2016 D.C. police reported 22,887 stop and frisk incidents. Out of those numbers 8 out of 10 people who were being stopped and frisked were black. Which averages out to 7 african americans being stopped and frisked everyday. Washington D.C. police told Eric that they only stop and frisk someone in response to something called a lookout. A lookout is a suspect description given to officers released to the public after a crime is committed. The Washington D.C. police department is not following the law at all and they need to fix it. -brooklyn003
One of the biggest controversies is, do officers target certain people because of race in order to stop and frisk. Many officers use the argument that a suspect “fit the description.” But the Washington DC use a broad description such as “black male with dark clothes.” This description can almost fit every African American male that is in Washington DC. A lookout is someone who is in charge stationed to keep watch for danger or trouble. What is even more ironic is that the Washington DC police department is 52% African American. And the officers are still targeting people that are of their same race. But they target people in a way that is unnecessary and bias. I do not think this is right. If you have to do a stop and frisk than the officer needs to do it for the right reasons not because the suspect looks suspicious. The officer needs to have probable cause and reasonable suspicion in order to start a stop and frisk. This is a big topic because this is how the public loses trust and companionship with the officers. They tend to not trust them and see them as a threat and not there to help and protect. Officers need to be looked at as there to help the public and be there to make the public aware of the issues in the community. Officers are also there to enforce the law but to do it in a professional manor. The Washington DC police department was breaking the law because they were making unlawful search and seizures and causing issues with the public instead of being there to help in times that they are needed. Having trust with the police officers lower the crime rate in the community because the public is scared to disappoint the officers. #notaplumber003
ReplyDeleteThe video shown in this post puts the police department interviewed in Washington, DC to shame. After doing thorough research on the topic of racial profiling in hand with stopping and frisking, the host of the video found that out of the 22,800+ individuals he researched for this statistic, he found that 8 out of every 10 were african american (the study was done from crime reports made from 2010-2016). In response to this statistic, the police department stated that the reasoning behind this was simply that oftentimes their “look-outs” (description of a suspect after a crime was just committed) are often extremely vague and most of the time they are of african americans. After finding this out, the host of the show attempted to reach out to the chief of the department (Chief Peter Newsham of the Metropolitan PD) many, many times. Every time the department received his request for the interview, they either flat out rejected him, ignored him, or told him to meet with someone else. This made the host (Eric Flak) want to delve deeper into the reasoning behind the chief’s refusal to meet with him. Eventually, the digging done by Eric and his crew brought to light a baffling revelation- the metropolitan police weren’t following one of the key laws put into place to help prevent unjust stopping and frisking. The law states that very specific notes and reports need to be filled out with every single stop and frisk in order to provide accurate statistics on who was being stopped, for what reason, as well as the ethnicity of the individuals to ensure racial profiling wasn’t evident. After being put on the spot for his choices and orders to not follow the law, the chief was humiliated, along law enforcement agencies all over the country, due to being able to get away from following such an important law for so long. After watching this video, it is pretty evident that racial profiling was a major issue for stopping and frisking, and is still to this day in some areas that are still working on some much needed reform. Ideally a few years down the road, these statistics showing racial profiling with stopping and frisking will have evened out at least to be a bit more proportional to the populations. GMan003
ReplyDeleteIn this video they discussed what stop and frisk looks like as a citizen under going this procedure. At the beginning of the video, they describe the statistics behind stop and frisk. In 2010-2016 there was 22,887 stop and frisk events. Out of these numbers, eight out of every ten people where African- American. Which is roughly about seven African-Americans who get stopped and frisked daily in DC. These statistics are truly eye opening as it makes me question the true intent of stop and frisk. It almost appears that some officers and some agencies are abusing this procedure. To some it may raise a lot of doubts in the system. The underlining question that is concerning for citizen is, does stop and frisk encroach on their personal rights? Do officers really have the legal right to stop and frisk an individual when and wherever they feel the need to? The video then interviewed a few random citizens for their opinion. The majority expressed a great discomfort towards this procedure. Some said it made them feel like they were taken advantage of and they were being discriminated for their race and heritage. They thought it was a lot of racial profiling as most of the stop and frisk were towards African-Americans. Through this video I learned there were two types of body searches. The first being for guns and or any kind of weapons. The officer performs over clothes pat down; they are only looking for bulges where weapons may be. While the other search being extremely more invasive as they search for contraband. The officer has the legal right to be invasive when looking for drugs. However, they need to have reasonable suspicion in order to perform the search legally. I think this video was interesting as to displayed the heated controversy with stop and frisk. It broadened my personal opinion for stop and frisk. -CoalRoller003
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ReplyDeleteEric Flack talks about the issues of the Washington DC Police Department and their use of stop and frisk. Stop and Frisk means the officer can stop someone and ask them questions. If they feel like they have enough reasonable suspicion they can go through the outer clothing of the person in question. The PD did not start collecting data of the results of stop and frisk. When the media got ahold of that report, they blasted the police department and the city for not doing that. The city then built the budget around that so the Police Department could start collecting the data. When the PD went to get the ability to be able to do that they just kept the money because it was way over that budget. So again when the media got ahold of the information that the PD had to start the collection, the community started to really speak out. The news people and different organizations of the city, started going going asking people if they had been stop and frisk by officers. The results of it showed that a lot more African American people had been stoped and frisked than white of any other types of people. When the Police Chief was asked by the media to sit down and discuss if, they were told they would sit and talk or sometime even ignored. The local media emailed and called over 15 times to discuss with the PD offices. When asked at a city council meeting, the assistant mayor had no idea about the situation. The city didn’t seem to care about it to much. The city has been avoiding the reporting stop and frisk law.
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The video of Stop and Frisk was very interesting in my opinion. In the video, Eric Flack spent time looking into and speaking about the stop and frisk procedures and problems with the Washington, D.C. Police Department. The Video showed an interview with a man who videotapes police when they are arresting or searching African Americans. Over his time of taping the interactions of police ad the black community, he has found that there have been many situations were police abuse their powers or treat this population of people differently. Between 2010 and 2016 there were thousands of people stopped and frisked. Out of those thousands of people, eight of ten of the individuals stopped were of black heritage. When I first heard this statistic it was a little alarming, but at the same time, it is to be addressed that this was in a population of majority african americans. At any rate, this is an alarming statistic to see. Many of the community members who were stopped were released upon the realization that they were in fact the wrong subject they were looking for. This is a common theme of african american individuals to be mistaken for the wrong suspect police are on the lookout for. Many times the description is not very descriptive and could be many individuals in a small block radius. One comment in the video said that a description given of a black male wearing a black hoodie and jeans could describe almost all of Howard University in Washington, D.C. The video mentioned that the police department finally admitted they were not keeping track of the stop and frisk data like they should have been. This is one of the biggest steps in the process of changing that statistic that the majority of the stops were on african american individuals. Yet, the D.C. police department has fallen behind in the very long process of changing the mindset in policing, relating to stop and frisk procedures. -AS003
ReplyDeleteStop and frisk is an issue that causes many problems across the nation. One place that has a major problem with stop and frisk is our nations capital Washington D.C. From 2010 to 2016 there were 22 thousand plus cases of stop and frisk. From that massive number 8 of the 10 people stopped were African American. The Police force tried to justify that number by stating that 8 out of the 10 lookouts were African Americans. But the lookouts were so vague that they could be almost anyone in the city. In one occasion a youtuber was walking home at night and was question by an officer driving through the neighborhood. I was surprised that the officer asked the youtuber if he had a gun. If you had a weapon why would you ever tell the officer you did. I would understand if the officer was conducting a frisk on the individual and asked if he had any weapons on them, but driving by and asking is just being lazy and looking to start a problem. Another instance of police misuse of stop is when 4 officers stopped a college professor when he was walking in his own neighborhood. The officers could not believe that could live in that nice of a neighborhood. People might say that this only happens with a white officer and a African American citizen, but in that case it was four African American officers who stopped the African American professor. When the narrator tied to get an explanation to why this is happening from the chief of police, he was denied many times. Even when the chief of police stated that he would give an interview, the narrator was still denied. It was nice to see that the chief of police finally had to take the blame for how bad the problem was. -ClarkKent003
ReplyDeleteThis video is one of the recent reports showing ongoing racial disparities in encounters between police and members of the general public in the country. The lack of data collection is the major impediment to understand how stop and frisk policy is actually carried out on the streets. Several improvement need to be made to provide a greater transparency and make it possible for supervisors to fully review stops and frisks. our police officers must follow and remember the rights of people in the community. Reasonable suspicion exists when the information known to the member of the service would make an ordinarily prudent and cautious police officer under the circumstances believe criminal activity is in hand. The officer must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the person stopped of the criminal conduct. The officer must be able to articulate specific facts establishing justification for the stop., hunches or gut feelings are not sufficient. As we see from books frisk may not be conducted to discover evidence or the proceeds or instrumentality of a crime. A police officer cannot frisk bag of item of personal property unless the officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous and the bag or item could contain a weapon and is within the person reach. GUSII 003
ReplyDeleteStop and frisk is a law that was created in 1968 by the United States Supreme Court. An officer cannot stop and frisk a citizen without probable cause. With probable cause, the officer is allowed to do a full search which is usually enforced when looking for drugs. This means the officers can look through any and everything. With reasonable suspicion, officers are allowed to frisk which is usually done when searching for weapons. Frisking is only a pat down. In Washington D.C., there is an average of seven African Americans that get stopped each day. Eight out of every ten stops are on African Americans. Most of the people that were interviewed believe that officers stop them because of racial profiling. There are tons of innocent African Americans that are stopped each day because they “fit a reported description”. Officers need to stop people for the right reasons not because they “look suspicious”. Majority of black people wear the same type of clothing and have the same hairstyles, while searching in a black community, will the officers stop every black person they see walking? As the officers stop and frisk, sometimes they go over board and try to turn a reasonable suspicion into a probable cause. Unbelievingly, 52% of the officers in Washington D.C. are African American and are bias towards other African Americans. It is not always white officers. I believe African Americans will always be seen as the bad guys. The officers are supposed to report every stop and frisk they do. Washington D.C.’s police department lacks these actions. When reporting stop and frisks, the only information they reported was the reason they were stopped, date, age, race, and location. Washington D.C.s police department needs to do a better job and learn off of other police departments. –pieface003
ReplyDeleteI think this video is a perfect representation when it comes to the broken relationships, and the amount of racial profiling in our law enforcement agencies. Statistics show that blacks, and latinos are stopped significantly more than any other race. But I think we let a lot of these police agencies get away with things like this. I don't think that we question them enough, about there stop and frisk policies. We should constantly be asking questions such as how do police legally carry out their jobs, and how does leadership maintain the accountability of their officers. Stop and frisk is probably one of the most controversial police terms around. This news report showed actually how bad it was in Washington D.C. The video stated that in between the years 2010-2016 that there was 22,000 people who were stopped and frisked, and every 8 out of 10 of those people were black. That is actually an astonishing number, I think the leadership in that police department needs to do a better job of holding their officers more accountable for who they are stopping, and searching. The video also stated that the reason for all of these stop and frisk was because these people fit the description of other suspects. The Police Chief said that people are only stopped because of lookouts. I think that is a horrible excuse, you can clearly see the amount of racial profiling in this police department just by looking at the data, and statistics. You can clearly see trends of what race groups are stopped more in this city. Another thing that I found very interesting, is that 52 percent of Washington D.C police department is African American. The video also stated that most of these stop and frisk happen in wards 7 and 8 which are mostly made of blacks and latinos.
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The video shows one of the more recent reports showing ongoing racial disparities and encounters between police and members of the general public. The lack of data collection is the main problem. This data shows how stop and frisk policy is actually carried out on the streets. Changes need to be made to provide a greater form of transparency and make it possible for supervisors to review stops and frisks. Police officers in our communities must follow and remember the rights of people that live within the community. Reasonable suspicion exists when the information known to officers that would make an ordinarily prudent and cautious police officer under the circumstances believe criminal activity is in hand. The officer must have an objective basis for suspecting the person stopped of the criminal conduct. The officer must be able to articulate specific facts establishing justification for the stop or gut feelings are not sufficient. In the video when asked at a city council meeting, the assistant mayor had no idea about the situation. The city had been avoiding the reporting when it came to the stop and frisk law. -CUBSFAN003
ReplyDeleteThe stop and frisk case Terry V. Ohio of 1968 has brought about a lot of controversy with some Officers using this to harass minorities. The lack of accountably by the Washington DC police Chief for his department is embarrassing. Statistics show between 2010-2016 22,887 people were stopped and frisked and of that 22,887 eight out ten were people of color. There is clearly a legitimacy issue here. What is the use for their so-called change division if the Chief is still allowing officers to violate laws to achieve a high quota. Another issue is the fact that these officers feel its ok to use these alleged “look-outs” to justify probable cause to stop and frisk someone. Who or what deems this person as a creditable “look-out? Also, I feel that department did not keep up with the comprehensive Stop and Frisk Data because this would immediately show that the department was targeting one specific group of people. Also, if the police Chief was unclear or as he stated “didn’t understand” what was needed and the cost for the NEAR ACT this should have been brought up when he agreed to implement this in his department. Not being able to prioritize is not a good enough excuse when dealing with harassment and bias. The video that was recorded of the officer “probing” the black male during the search is a prime example of why these officers should be held accountable for their actions during none justifiable stop and frisk. Jadist003
ReplyDeleteStop and frisk is a major problem in America. Does it help stop and or prevent crime or does it cause even more problems in the minority community. This video talks about how Washington DC are affected by stop and frisk and how the the police department are not following a law that was meant to fix the stop and frisk issue. This reporter stopped to ask twelve people on the streets at random about their experiences with the police. Ten of the people experienced and or witnessed what they believed to be racial profiling. Often times black people feel when they are stopped and questioned because of the color of their skin. Which was showed by the stop and frisk data that the reporter received from the police department and it showed from 2010 to 2016 recorded about 22,887 stop and frisk incidents which means that 8 out of every 10 people who were stop and frisked were African American. I think sometimes it could be possibly because of racial profiling or sometimes they are just doing their job. There are some cases where the person that there looking for doesn’t even look like the kid or adult that they have stop and frisked. But let’s not pretend like there is no such thing as African American criminals which there are so it’s kinda fifty fifty. You really can’t say the intentions of the officer unless you were there or the person looks completely different from a offender that is on the loose. Which the reporter did look into what’s known as a lookout which is a suspect description given to officers released to the public. But when they looked on their twitter page the lookouts were not very descriptive. Most of them only described the offender as black male with dark clothing on. How can that be the only thing that is posted? I know a lot of black males who wear black clothes so does that make them criminals because there black and where dark clothes? I feel they should do a better job at giving a description to help better prevent this issue. Batman003
ReplyDeleteThis video really touched on a tough subject and showed things through the perspective of the citizens. The city of Washington D.C. among many other cities, was guilty of primarily stopping citizens that were African American. The officers seemed to be targeting African Americans and it was made illegal, but in Washington D.C., the police department ignored the regulations made to improve the situation and refused to speak with news outlets about it. Several of the people who were interviewed in the video stated that they had been stopped by police officers countless of times in their lives although they had not done anything illegal. This issue definitely raises a few questions. The biggest one has to be why are they being targeted so much? Through some research done by the reporter, it was discovered that reports on their social media of people to lookout for had extremely vague descriptions. The suspects that were African American were described as black, male, and most times wearing dark clothing. That description is absolutely terrible and could fit a good percentage of the population. The police department needs to change their descriptions for sure. With extremely high stop rates with African American people, it creates a bad image and major problem with distrust of police officers. Our police departments need to be doing whatever they can to prevent these kinds of things from happening. -Smokeybear003
ReplyDeleteThis video was done by a local news reporter who did a great deal of research into the Washington DC Police Department and more specifically the statistics on stop and frisk. He was started by the number he saw being a longtime resident of the nation's capital, he found that Washington D.C. From 2010 to 2016 there were 22 thousand plus cases of stop and frisk. From that massive number 8 of the 10 people stopped were African American. The Police force tried to justify that number by stating that 8 out of the 10 lookouts were African Americans. But the lookouts were so vague that they could be almost anyone in the city. Another major problem that was addressed as far as stop and frisk goes is the data collection. More specifically the lack of Data collection that is so important to preventing these outrageous numbers. The even go the funding that was supposed to help them getting the data collecting process started and when they did not collect the data a lot of people wanted answers from the city leaders to the media. They city council made the police chief start the data collection. When the media heard about the meeting between the police chief and the city resulting in the police department being mandated that they had to start the collection, the community started to really speak out. The news people and different organizations of the city, started going going asking people if they had been stop and frisk by officers. If they can get any idea of how to better police the community by looking at the data collection then it will better the relationship with the people of the community and lower some of the tension that we saw in this video.
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This video was put together pretty well and does a good job highlighting the problem with stop and frisk in the United States. Something the video mentioned that I thought was a good point was that you can look at each individual case and you might be able to find some rationale as to why that stop was made. However when looking at the data it becomes obvious stop and frisk is being used disproportionately against minorities and poor areas. Plus it’s just been used as a tool for police to be able to arbitrarily harass people in their own neighborhoods. It’s hard to imagine how I’d feel if I had to worry about being frisked by police every time I just wanted to go home or anywhere really. After awhile it’s easy to imagine that I would be pretty frustrated with police and lose trust completely. I don’t know that it’s worth the deterioration of police and community relations just to catch a few people every once in awhile. I think another thing that was problematic was the chief of police refusing to talk to anyone about this. It seems to me that if he were running his police department legitimately there’d be no problems with him talking about his department with pride. I definitely feel like we need to continue to focus on improving relationships between the community and the police and I think modifying stop and frisk to severely limit the police ability to randomly stop people on the street is a good way to start that.
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Profiling, Profiling and more Profiling! For 8/10 individuals to be Stopped and Frisked in Washington D.C from 2010-2016 are African American is Racial profiling. "we stopped you because you fit the description of a suspect we are looking for is the biggest hunk of malarkey I've heard. They just described my cousin. Here is the issue that i have instead of chasing the real suspects they are chasing and idea of a suspect and picking up every African American and busting them on drug charges. Should the be using drugs no but resources are being wasted each time a false Stop and Frisk is being implicated. Another note two is that even thought the arresting officer is probably black too 52% chance of them being black has a greater cause for them to profile racially against another african american. Just because they want to express their authority and they don't want to be subjected to not taking action against their own . The other fact that remains is that DC did file their stop and frisks to be collected for data. that their lets me know that they knew what they are doing is wrong and they didn't want to admit to any wrong doing. Look how much the chief dodged the reporter about the on going stop and frisk issue. Protocols need to be followed properly...Casket003
ReplyDeleteThis video gave amazing examples on how stop and frisk can be taking advantage of and how it is losing the trust of so many minorities. This video showed that 52% where african american and that's about 7 black people stopped a day. This was getting so out of hand the department was actually found guilty for not following an filling out proper data by law on stop and frisk Also hearing the personal stories of those that were a victim of this dix=discrimination was heard to hear and I'm telling you right now I have nor probably will never be stopped like that just based on the fact im a white female and that's not right nor fair and it's clear we need to fix this to regain trust in the communities its effecting. How are we going to expect them to trust us when we do things like this. There is a pattern and we need to start changing this not just for the benefit for the community but for the police and other agencies to have that trust to be able to have the community reach out not run and hide information. -pizza003
ReplyDeleteAfter rewatching this video it had taken me by surprise. The newscaster did his hardest to get the best information to make sure this was done right. When he said that out of the 8/10 stop and frisks that had taken place a majority of them were young African Americans males. When given the information that he was told about they were stopped on a description fitting a crime how is that fair. Instant profiling was a major factor that consumed D.C’s police department. The newscaster was right on how the stop and frisks are being misused on minorities. For instance when they showed the officer on the home video misusing stop and frisk and violated young male by checking his prostate and acting inappropriate on the loudspeaker in the squad car. It just blows my mind that there are people like that working in uniform. Then when the office of the Chief kept making the news run in circles just to get a small interview was irritating. Then they sent someone who had no experience to talk about the factors that followed stop and frisks. Then the information showed up and the chief had to show what his officers were doing incorrectly on the stop and frisks. It is truly remarkable how this came to be. I for one am glad to have watched this video to get this type of information I would of never thought of hearing or seeing. -MrWadeWilson003
ReplyDeleteThis video is focused on the state Washington D.C. and how their stop and frisk is unfair. Also the racial disparities going on between the police and the community members. Eric Flack is a investigative reporter born and raised in Washington D.C. so this is a personal topic for him. He also says he wants his city to be the best it can be which I think is a good thing as a person in the community. Eric spent a lot of time interviewing and talking to people in Washington D.C. and trying to talk to the shieff which didn't work out. He spent 4 months trying to get in and interview with the sheriff and ended up seeing him in public. In september 12 people were chosen at random to talk about their encounter with police, 10 of them had stories of them experiencing or witnessing what they believe to be racial profiling. The black people feel they are only being stopped and question by the police because of their color of their skin. A lady getting interviewed says “our stories all probably sound alike or similar and if their similar then they have to be true.” This shows how many stories have been told by the same people and this should not be the case. Between 2010-2016 D.C. police reported 22,887 stop and frisk incidents. Out of those numbers 8 out of 10 people who were being stopped and frisked were black. Which averages out to 7 african americans being stopped and frisked everyday. Washington D.C. police told Eric that they only stop and frisk someone in response to something called a lookout. A lookout is a suspect description given to officers released to the public after a crime is committed. The Washington D.C. police department is not following the law at all and they need to fix it. -brooklyn003
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