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Police Quotas Should Never Exist 4

Assault On America / Commentary / Evil

Police Quotas Should Never Exist

The class action lawsuit against NYPD’s criminal stop and frisk policy is under way. Two of the officers testifying in the case, Officers Adhyl Polanco and Pedro Serrano, have indicated that the NYPD has a set quota for how many of these constitutional violations must be carried out per officer per month. The Department has conducted more than 5 million stops since Mayor Bloomberg took office in 2002, more than 85 percent of which targeted blacks or Latinos and only 12 percent of which resulted in criminal charges. Both Serrano and Polanco testified that supervisors required at least 20 summonses...

Civil Policeman Is A Good Example 0

Commentary

Civil Policeman Is A Good Example

Oceanside, CA Police officer Matthew Lyons stops a citizen carrying a holstered gun and performs a validation check. The citizen is well within his rights to carry a weapon in public and the police officer agrees. In my estimation the guy obviously did this on purpose in order to be approach by an officer so he could try to make a statement about his right to bare arms. That point is a bit obvious, even the Lyons picked up on it. Despite the man almost purposefully attempting to provoke a reaction from the policeman, the cop stays civil and respectful....

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Culture

NYPD Brutality Questions At Hip Hop Album Release Party In NYC

Police attack, beat and bully party goers last night at a Smif-N-Wessun and Peat Rock show and album release party in Brooklyn. The above video taken by the UK’s Jay Diamond shows the chaos in action. Several NYPD officers can clearly be seen beating people with nightsticks in the video. Now that the smoke has cleared the finger pointing has begun. Club goers point to the NYPD as the cause of elevating a routine situation to a situation that has reached the attention of national news. The NYPD say they were attacked and responded appropriately for their safety and that...