The journal “Police stop-and-frisk practices: an examination of factors that affect officers’ decisions to initiate a stop-and-frisk police procedure” by Avdi S. Avdija , he writes about how the stop and frisk procedure works, and the requirements the police officers have to follow. Avdija mentions, “There were 14 predictors or reasons that were typically used by the police officers to justify the initiation of a police stop procedure on a suspect. All were recorded /measured dichotomously with binary (yes/no) response categories. The second set of variables, however, includes suspects’ demographic characteristics” (Avdija 28) meaning, when police officers are filling the stop and frisk application, they have to write why they stop
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She mentions, “Yet, the police could be writing up in court for these summons for the things a little a disorderly conduct, which led fines, which a lot of poor families can’t pay. And if they don’t show up in court for these summonses, they can end up with more serious situations” she argues that even if stop and frisked decreased the crimes and prevent it from happening, sometimes police officers writes the fines for the smaller offenses, which is far away from crimes, police officers gives the individual an fine which than becomes a problem if the person is from the poor family. Moreover, even if stop and frisked decreased a crime, the major problem is still ot solved, Black and Latino/a community is still major target for the police, yet they make less than 30% of the U.S population. Fagel also argues with Jon Leiberman that even if stop and frisk is one of the factors to stop the crimes, there should be a better ways to fix the issues of the crimes. She mentions “Something else that can contribute to decreases in crime is getting to the root of the problem, like the Safe Street program in Baltimore and that Ceasefire program in Chicago” she argues that these two programs can create a better and safe environment, where people can be safer, less abused and violated by the …show more content…
City of New York, filled in 2008, where plaintif was arguing that Police officers were targeting people based on their looks and race. In the article it was mentioned “ A statistical study of nearly 4.5 million stops produced on trial showed that only 6 percent of stops resulted in arrests and 6 percent resulted in summonses-which means that 88 percent of the people stopped had been doing nothing wrong. In about 83 percent of these cases, the person stopped was Black or Latino” which is another proof that Blacks and Latinos are target, even if they make half of the population. According to this article it argues that Police need to be educated more about the Stop and Frisk, in addition the court created new and better way of monitoring the stop and frisk, which will reduces that number, now police officer have to describe the reason of the stop and frisk in the form, they are trained and educated better of the law. Court also approved the new training method for the officers and created new project, which will require police officers to wear body cameras, which will record everything mentioned in the article. Moreover this new rules can prevent further violation from police, it control police officer to make sure that they proceed the stop and frisk lawfully, to makes sure that they won’t target people based on
She mentions, “Yet, the police could be writing up in court for these summons for the things a little a disorderly conduct, which led fines, which a lot of poor families can’t pay. And if they don’t show up in court for these summonses, they can end up with more serious situations” she argues that even if stop and frisked decreased the crimes and prevent it from happening, sometimes police officers writes the fines for the smaller offenses, which is far away from crimes, police officers gives the individual an fine which than becomes a problem if the person is from the poor family. Moreover, even if stop and frisked decreased a crime, the major problem is still ot solved, Black and Latino/a community is still major target for the police, yet they make less than 30% of the U.S population. Fagel also argues with Jon Leiberman that even if stop and frisk is one of the factors to stop the crimes, there should be a better ways to fix the issues of the crimes. She mentions “Something else that can contribute to decreases in crime is getting to the root of the problem, like the Safe Street program in Baltimore and that Ceasefire program in Chicago” she argues that these two programs can create a better and safe environment, where people can be safer, less abused and violated by the …show more content…
City of New York, filled in 2008, where plaintif was arguing that Police officers were targeting people based on their looks and race. In the article it was mentioned “ A statistical study of nearly 4.5 million stops produced on trial showed that only 6 percent of stops resulted in arrests and 6 percent resulted in summonses-which means that 88 percent of the people stopped had been doing nothing wrong. In about 83 percent of these cases, the person stopped was Black or Latino” which is another proof that Blacks and Latinos are target, even if they make half of the population. According to this article it argues that Police need to be educated more about the Stop and Frisk, in addition the court created new and better way of monitoring the stop and frisk, which will reduces that number, now police officer have to describe the reason of the stop and frisk in the form, they are trained and educated better of the law. Court also approved the new training method for the officers and created new project, which will require police officers to wear body cameras, which will record everything mentioned in the article. Moreover this new rules can prevent further violation from police, it control police officer to make sure that they proceed the stop and frisk lawfully, to makes sure that they won’t target people based on