NY Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
The NYPD has formally introduced the “receipt” cops will now be required to issue to anyone they question during street stops, the Daily News has learned.
Patrick Lynch, head of the largest NYPD union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, called the new paperwork “another nail in the coffin of proactive policing” and predicted a rise in retaliatory complaints against cops.
“Instead of improving community relations, these receipts will accelerate an increase in crime and disorder, which will damage the city’s economic health while hurting those crime-ridden communities who need our protection the most,” Lynch said.
The “What Is A Stop?” slip will go to those stopped but not arrested. It requires officers to give their name and check one or more of six factors that led to the stop, such as a person being near a crime scene or matching a suspect’s description.
The form also explains the legal authority officers have to conduct stops in the first place.
In addition, a Sept. 21 internal NYPD order underscores that two factors police were previously able to cite — a suspect making a furtive movement or being in a high crime area — are not cause enough for a stop.
And in the strongest acknowledgment that racial profiling is a problem, the order says people can’t be stopped “because they are members of a racial or ethnic group that appears more frequently in local crime suspect data.”
Critics have said too many innocent minority men were stopped because they live in a rough area, and that furtive movements as a rationale became a catchall when cops couldn’t come up with a legitimate reason.
Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, called the changes “important first steps in reducing illegal and discriminatory stops, while the new receipt will improve accountability and hopefully de-escalate tensions.”
Street stops reached a record high of nearly 700,000 in 2011 but are on a pace for about 42,000 this year.
“The NYPD has formally introduced the “receipt” cops will now be required to issue to anyone they question during street stops,…”
Hopefully they’ll receive lead or copper jacketed ‘receipts’ in return.
“Instead of improving community relations, these receipts will accelerate an increase in crime and disorder, which will damage the city’s economic health while hurting those crime-ridden communities who need our protection the most,” Lynch said.”
Translation: unknown
Gobbledygook & doublespeak at its finest.
Bahahahaha! So it’s wrong for the Nazi police to stop you, but if they give you a receipt (almost as though they have purchased you), it’s OK.
Unfrigginbelievable…..
So now we are just a thing for the police to purchase and abuse. Oh joy.