STOP AND FRISK
When a police officer notices something suspicious about a character they are able to stop the person, ask them a few questions, and check to see if they have or are doing anything illegal. This process is called stop and frisk. Stop and frisk seems harmless but many people disagree with this movement. Citizens don’t want to be harassed by police officers just because they find the citizen suspicious. Most of the time when the stop and frisk process occurs, the “suspect” has done nothing wrong or has nothing illegal on them. Many popular media sites like Facebook, YouTube, etc. have expressed their opinions about stop and frisk. Many people believe the stop and frisk process is taken advantage of by police officers. This issue is important to me because I have been stopped by police officers more than one time while i was doing nothing wrong or had nothing illegal on me. Every time i was stopped resulted in a waste of time.
First Digital Space-YouTube
On the popular site YouTube, there are many links and videos that touch upon the stop and frisk process. Tom Ruskin, former NYPD detective states that the stop and frisk process needs to be modified. The reason he feels it should be modified is because if there is a half a million stops enforced by police officers, the arrest rate is too far below the rate of times civilians were just stopped. He proposes that retraining for the officers should take place since the effectiveness of stop and frisk is not good. According to Ruskin, some police officers do not follow the right guidelines of stop and frisk which is why this issue needs to be more noticed. Here is the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXY4OqC2-XE |
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Second Digital Space- Facebook
Third Digital Space- WorldStarHipHop
Worldstarhiphop.com is a website that displays hip hop and urban media. The latest rap videos, R&B videos, and anything that is considered entertaining that needs to be heard about or watched can be found on the site. Current news is broadcasted on this website constantly, along with interviews, Vine compilations, and parodies of performances. Besides entertaining videos this site also contains videos about the government, current drama between countries, and the most relevant, stop and frisk.
There is this short documentary of a teenager who recorded two police officer’s conversation with the teen during the stop and frisk process. His name is Alvin and he recorded this altercation because he felt it was harassment. At the time, this voice-over was the only known recording of the stop and frisk process happening. You can hear in the recording the police cursing, yelling, and putting hands on the boy, even though the teenager wasn’t doing anything wrong. They started to put his hands behind his back and the teenager asked why he was being arrested and the officer replied “for being a fucking mutt”. Stop and frisk altercations happen frequently and some officers treat subjects with zero respect.
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhR7481KU1Lb9YqQ0m
There is this short documentary of a teenager who recorded two police officer’s conversation with the teen during the stop and frisk process. His name is Alvin and he recorded this altercation because he felt it was harassment. At the time, this voice-over was the only known recording of the stop and frisk process happening. You can hear in the recording the police cursing, yelling, and putting hands on the boy, even though the teenager wasn’t doing anything wrong. They started to put his hands behind his back and the teenager asked why he was being arrested and the officer replied “for being a fucking mutt”. Stop and frisk altercations happen frequently and some officers treat subjects with zero respect.
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhR7481KU1Lb9YqQ0m
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To Finish Up......
In conclusion, stop and frisk is a process that I believe should be enforced when absolutely needed. All three of these digital spaces are reliable sources to get any message you feel passionate about across. Stop and Frisk can easily be recorded and posted so officers better go by the rules. Police officers do have to give out a certain amount of tickets and stop a certain amount of people a day, but they should not give the ones that are actually doing nothing wrong a hard time.
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXY4OqC2-XE
https://www.facebook.com/EndStopAndFrisk
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-breaks-home-warrant-kill-unarmed-teen-judge-dismisses-case/#0O4w3VcIe2Sgk0ea.01
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhR7481KU1Lb9YqQ0m
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhtXhs99eqyyVWGBOU
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhtXhs99eqyyVWGBOU
https://www.facebook.com/EndStopAndFrisk
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-breaks-home-warrant-kill-unarmed-teen-judge-dismisses-case/#0O4w3VcIe2Sgk0ea.01
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhR7481KU1Lb9YqQ0m
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhtXhs99eqyyVWGBOU
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhtXhs99eqyyVWGBOU