I. Topic: New York City News
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To inform the class about the New York Police Department’s Stop and Frisk practice.
Thesis: Three news sources focus on NYPD Stop and Frisk policies
II. Introduction:
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self-esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.” – Henry Rollins. The moment a person assumes you are guilty based on superficial presumptions is the day where you feel powerless. America is the country where equal protection …show more content…
e) To some individuals, stop-and-frisk is no different than being robbed. f) In 2011, police recorded 686,000 stops, and only 12 percent of these resulted in an arrest or summons. B.2 The Stop and Frisk practice consists of racial profiling.
a) The police department argues that law abiding black people are more suspicious than law- abiding white people. b) In 2013, a federal judge ruled against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program condemning it for its overflow of unreasonable stops and searches that is corrupted with indirect racial profiling. c) In 1999, Amadou Diallo a 22-year-old West African immigrant was outside his Bronx apartment, four police officers stopped him because he resembled a rapist in a police sketch. d) As Diallo was reaching for his wallet to identify himself, he was shot to death due to the cops presuming he was reaching for a gun. e) Between 2002 and 2012, 83% of people who were stopped and frisked were black or Hispanic. f) The Center for Constitutional rights filed a racial-profiling lawsuit against the city.
B.3 The standards of Stop-and-Frisk resulted from Terry V
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To inform the class about the New York Police Department’s Stop and Frisk practice.
Thesis: Three news sources focus on NYPD Stop and Frisk policies
II. Introduction:
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self-esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.” – Henry Rollins. The moment a person assumes you are guilty based on superficial presumptions is the day where you feel powerless. America is the country where equal protection …show more content…
e) To some individuals, stop-and-frisk is no different than being robbed. f) In 2011, police recorded 686,000 stops, and only 12 percent of these resulted in an arrest or summons. B.2 The Stop and Frisk practice consists of racial profiling.
a) The police department argues that law abiding black people are more suspicious than law- abiding white people. b) In 2013, a federal judge ruled against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program condemning it for its overflow of unreasonable stops and searches that is corrupted with indirect racial profiling. c) In 1999, Amadou Diallo a 22-year-old West African immigrant was outside his Bronx apartment, four police officers stopped him because he resembled a rapist in a police sketch. d) As Diallo was reaching for his wallet to identify himself, he was shot to death due to the cops presuming he was reaching for a gun. e) Between 2002 and 2012, 83% of people who were stopped and frisked were black or Hispanic. f) The Center for Constitutional rights filed a racial-profiling lawsuit against the city.
B.3 The standards of Stop-and-Frisk resulted from Terry V