DC Police (not gun related; but rights related)

[user3214]

According the article police can stop and turn you around just because. Isn’t this the same as an officer asking you why you’re carrying; if you can’t produce a right answer you are send on your way home.
Is it far off to make such a link here?

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=1507705

 

[SamG.]

(Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

Yeah I'd say that's wrong to do that though.

 

[user3214]

Sorry let me remove the text

 

[Larry E]

I'm all for doing what needs doing to lower crime, but the criminals are rarely the ones who are bothered by things like this unless they're REALLY stupid. On the level of a rotten stump for instance. It would seem that this would be like the old "move along" orders given to groups of "undesirables" by police a few decades ago. That was ruled to be unconstitutional as I remember. Can't see why this wouldn't be the same or very similar.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

on the other hand it works and the folks complaining live elsewhere.
add that to the judge ruling it kosher i say i wish em luck.

these type of things disrupt the folks coming through to "stop and cop" remove the drug market and there is less crime. tales em a while to relocate

 

[mgkdrgn]

It's a ploy for some good camera and PR time from the DC police. They'll be there for, oh, 48 hours, and then be gone. When they are gone, the thuggies return from vacation and life is "normal" again.

 

[Mainsail]

Really, it's not that hard:

Judge refuses to stop D.C. police roadblocks
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has refused to order police in the District of Columbia to stop using a vehicle checkpoint program in one of the city's crime-ridden neighborhoods.

The Partnership for Civil Justice sued in June on behalf of four residents who were stopped at checkpoints in Washington's Trinidad neighborhood. They had asked U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to issue a preliminary injunction to keep police from using the program again.

But Leon refused, saying it was unlikely the plaintiff would win a lawsuit to stop the program permanently.

Police in June stopped cars in the northeast neighborhood. Motorists without proof that they lived in the area had to explain where they were going or they were turned around.

 

[Art Eatman]

user3214, within budget constraints, no new money, what is your alternative to what was done?

 

[devilc]

Context?
They have cordoned off the entire Trinidad neighborhood and are screening entry and exit.
This is a test case.
Count on it.

 

[Jeff White]

This is a test case for off topic threads.....Nope they aren't allowed to run today either...