Legal issue of Racial Profiling has been a concern for minorities In New York City. Racial profiling is referring as the discriminatory practice conducted by law enforcement, that targeted individuals for suspicious crime based on the person race, gender, nationality, religion, and origin. Racial profile has been an issue for many year, however in recent years there has been an increase in cases against the New York Police Department. New York City population consist of about 8.4 Million people and the New York Police Department is trying to do their best to protect the citizen of this city, however by doing so law enforcement have violated the rights of citizens.
History of Racial Profiling
Teri v Ohio was the land mark case decided by …show more content…
Local Law 30 prohibits law enforcement officer from engaging in racial profiling that relies on the person race, ethnicity, religion or national origin as the only factor to initiate action against the person, even with Local Law 30 in place on banning racial profiling it still wasn’t sufficient enough to deter the practice. According to CompStat in 2002 97,000 stop were made and by 2010 the number of stops has increased to more than 601,000 Black and Latino’s represented more than 80% of the stops. After reviewing the stats the City Council and the New York Police Department agreed that Local Law 30 wasn’t working how they thought it would and the law was too vague and proceed on changing the …show more content…
v City of New York is a set of cases that address a class action lawsuit against the City of New York, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and unnamed and named New York City Police Officers. Floyd an African American man that stated that on February 27, 2008 he was walking home in the Bronx when he dumped into another resident who reside in the basement of his Godmother building. The man told Floyd that he was locked out of his apartment, Floyd went upstairs and got seven to ten keys because he wasn’t sure which one of those keys was for the basement apartment. Floyd and the individual were trying out the different keys; they got up to 5 sets of keys when they found the right key. They didn’t even open the door three NYPD officers asked them what they were doing and proceed to frisk the two individual. The officer stated that they stop the two man because they believed they were in the process of committing a burglary and Floyd behavior was suspicious and that there was a pattern of burglary around that same time of the night and in that neighborhood. The officer filled out a UF 250 when it was time to answer the question was the person searched the officer checked no. The question rise why would the officer lie about frisk the individual if the stop was reasonable or was it. The case was decided by Judge Scheindlin in favor of the plaintiff, after the decision the United State Court of Appeals granted the city a motion for the case to
History of Racial Profiling
Teri v Ohio was the land mark case decided by …show more content…
Local Law 30 prohibits law enforcement officer from engaging in racial profiling that relies on the person race, ethnicity, religion or national origin as the only factor to initiate action against the person, even with Local Law 30 in place on banning racial profiling it still wasn’t sufficient enough to deter the practice. According to CompStat in 2002 97,000 stop were made and by 2010 the number of stops has increased to more than 601,000 Black and Latino’s represented more than 80% of the stops. After reviewing the stats the City Council and the New York Police Department agreed that Local Law 30 wasn’t working how they thought it would and the law was too vague and proceed on changing the …show more content…
v City of New York is a set of cases that address a class action lawsuit against the City of New York, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and unnamed and named New York City Police Officers. Floyd an African American man that stated that on February 27, 2008 he was walking home in the Bronx when he dumped into another resident who reside in the basement of his Godmother building. The man told Floyd that he was locked out of his apartment, Floyd went upstairs and got seven to ten keys because he wasn’t sure which one of those keys was for the basement apartment. Floyd and the individual were trying out the different keys; they got up to 5 sets of keys when they found the right key. They didn’t even open the door three NYPD officers asked them what they were doing and proceed to frisk the two individual. The officer stated that they stop the two man because they believed they were in the process of committing a burglary and Floyd behavior was suspicious and that there was a pattern of burglary around that same time of the night and in that neighborhood. The officer filled out a UF 250 when it was time to answer the question was the person searched the officer checked no. The question rise why would the officer lie about frisk the individual if the stop was reasonable or was it. The case was decided by Judge Scheindlin in favor of the plaintiff, after the decision the United State Court of Appeals granted the city a motion for the case to