Bloomberg support the police practice of “Stop and Frisk” and not a citizen’s right to personal liberty

The New York Times  06/11/12  Kate Taylor

“At Black Church, Mayor Says Stop-and-Frisk Policy ‘Saves Lives’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/nyregion/at-black-church-in-brooklyn-bloomberg-defends-stop-and-frisk-policy.html

As criticism of the Police Department’s so-called stop-and-frisk policy grows louder, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took to the pulpit before a black congregation in Brooklyn on Sunday to make his most forceful and nuanced defense of the practice yet, arguing that it had helped make New York the safest big city in the country, while acknowledging that the police needed to treat those whom they stopped wi In the city as a whole, the police stopped people and questioned them 684,330 times last year, a 600 percent increase from Mr. Bloomberg’s first year in office. Eighty-seven percent of those stopped were black or Latino, and the vast majority were young men, which has led some minority leaders to denounce the policy as a form of racial profiling.

Mr. Bloomberg said Sunday that racial profiling was banned by the Police Department, and that “we will not tolerate it.” He added, however, that the city would not “deny reality” in order to stop different groups according to their relative proportions in the population. (He used the examples of men versus women and young versus old people, rather than white versus black or Hispanic.)

Some critics have pointed out that, as the number of stops increased, the percentage in which guns were found diminished. Last year, the police seized 780 guns, suggesting that guns were recovered in roughly one in 1,000 stops.

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This is another power grab of personal liberty under the veil of societal safety. 

The article focuses on the aspect of racial profiling yet it is greater than that.  It is pushing the Constitutional right against illegal search and seizure. The police cannot just stop you and frisk without probable cause which infringe on personal liberty.

Yet Bloomberg is not concerned with personal liberties.

Bloomberg says the police have to do this to secure public safety. However, out of the 684,330 they have found 780 guns last year.  Those are not good odds.  There are reasons for the Constitution is so the govt doesn’t overreach their authority in people’s lives. 

87% of those searchs were of black and Hispanic people, yet all were Americans (my assumption).  The Constitution overrides any societal theory of unethical police practice.  So New York citizens should protest on racial profiling but on the unconstitutionality of the practice.