Summary
Drafted annotated biography
https://www.changethenypd.org/issue
In this study over the issues of policing in New York City it talks about the major problems of policing in New York City and the solutions that could make those issues less of a problem. One of the problems it states is that there is a lack of accountability when it comes to police handling a situation incorrectly. One example of this is stop and frisk abuses which were ruled unconstitutional in 2013 but since then there was a large amount of broken windows which is conceived to be police trying to search vehicles without a warrant. Even asking the reason why they were stopped by the police in the first place, learning the identity of the officer, or exercising their constitutional rights can lead to arrests, abuses, and brutality against civilians. The purpose of this study is to understand that even though they are slowly breaking down on abusing police officers it still remains deep down.
https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/nypolice/ch5.htm
In this study they talk about the risks of police using sacrificing the protection of citizens in order to achieve law enforcement gains. In the article is states, “In recent years, there has been a growing perception that the NYPD has sacrificed the protection of individuals civil liberties in order to achieve quantifiable law enforcement gains.[1] The department’s stop and frisk practices are at the heart of this highly publicized debate.[2]” This proves that the previous article that I chose also agrees with the fact that stop and frisk are the main problem to the policing problems in New York City.
In this article they show that the problems with policing also leads onto the future of life which is the teenagers and kids now. It shows the problems with how the police affect teenagers and kids negatively. One reason would be by changing their opinion on the police based on the actions shown on television. Another reason would be that the police are so worried about catching crime that they don’t care about preventing it before it happens. These are just some of the reasons why the police are negatively affecting teenagers and kids.
https://www.nyclu.org/en/mission-failure-civilian-review-policing-new-york-city-summary-findings
In this reading it talks about the reasons the police are losing the confidence of New Yorkers. One reason to support this is in the article it states, “The CCRB has historically closed about 50 percent of police-misconduct complaints without initiating an investigation; between 2002 and 2005 the “truncation” rate increased to 55 percent. In 2006 the CCRB closed 60 percent of all complaints without undertaking an investigation.” In my opinion there should be a full investigation in any misconduct case. One reason I believe this is because this will cause New Yorkers to avoid the police as if you ever get into an altercation with them you will more than likely lose that battle. Even if the police officer was in the right when it came to the “misconduct” it puts a bad reputation for all the police officers.
In this article it talks about the number of people killed by police in New York City was more than double what they said it was. It is stated that, “the number of people killed by police activity in New York is more than twice what has been reported.” They had reported that only 46 were killed by police when in reality there were 105 identified people killed by the police from 2010 to 2015. It is scary that they would feel the need to hide this type of information from the city. Its scary that they would rather not take accountability for the deaths to make them seem less dangerous than actually trying to fix that problem.
