Bloomberg is intent on maintaining racial profiling and violating the Fourth Amendment regarding stop and frisk. Repeatedly stop and frisk has been shown to violate the rights of citizens regarding probable cause and has been a despicable example of the racism inherent in our policing methods. The courts agree and have ruled the program unconstutional.
The only consistent result of stop and frisk has been the fear instilled in not only minorities themselves as they go about their business but in the families of those minorities as well. Creating an atmosphere of terror as the NYPD hunts down unsuspecting minorities simply walking from place to place.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sued the City Council Tuesday in a bid to overturn a law that aims to curb the police department's use of its controversial stop-and-frisk policy.
The council's votes came less than two weeks after a federal judge ruled unconstitutional the department's stop-and-frisk policy, in which officers stop people in high-crime areas suspected of engaging in criminal activity. The policy was thrown out on the grounds that it disproportionately targets minorities.
The bill that prompted Bloomberg's lawsuit expanded the definition of racial profiling and gives New Yorkers who believe they were targeted the right to sue police in state court.
I do have a question for Bloomberg, is he paying for this lawsuit out of his hoarded cash?