New Top Cop Promises Quality-Of-Life Focus

This assignment is great news for the Downtown/Wooster Square residents. Sean Maher is part of a group of young, intelligent, professional police leaders. He's a hard working guy with a genuine commitment to the community he serves. Good luck Sean, it's nice to see all of the great police officers who were previously buried in obscure assignments finally getting a chance to shine.

I smell shades of the broken windows theory.And we know what that means.Time for stop and frisk. And we know who will be the one's who will be stop and frisk the most.

Another District 4 Graduate!! A tremendous asset to NHPD and to the community he serves! Stay alert. Stay safe.

Another District 4 Graduate.. A tremendous asset to NHPD, and to the community he serves! Stay alert. Stay safe.

Sean Maher is a great choice to oversee those two very busy areas of the city. He is sharp, clear headed, friendly, firm and knows the people and area very well!! I can think of no one better to do this job. There are certain officers that were meant to lead. Sean is one of the few. I for one can breath a lot easier knowing who is at the reins.

I would like to wish Sean the best as he enters this new position.

The city of New Haven has made a great choice in this man. Thank You!

• Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!

Threefifths- what? No New York example or is that implied? BTW- stop and frisk is legal.

posted by: alphabravocharlie on January 20, 2017 7:40am

Threefifths- what? No New York example or is that implied? BTW- stop and frisk is legal.

it is legal only with probable cause.

Probable cause is not required only reasonable suspicion. Read Terry v. Ohio.

posted by: alphabravocharlie on January 20, 2017 2:01pm

Probable cause is not required only reasonable suspicion. Read Terry v. Ohio.

My bad.I left out based on race.That is what happen in New York.

New York's stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional, judge rules

A New York judge ruled Monday that stop-and-frisk searches carried out by city police are unconstitutional – and ordered that a federal monitor be brought in to oversee their reform.

In a major victory for civil rights activists who have long contended that stop-and-frisk amounts to racial profiling, US district court judge Shira Scheindlin said the stops violated individuals' right to privacy and equal treatment under the law. In addition, the city's highest officials had "turned a blind eye" to evidence that officers carried out the searches in a "racially discriminatory manner", she added.In practice", she wrote in a 195-page ruling, "the policy encourages the targeting of young black and Hispanic men based on their prevalence in local crime complaints. This is a form of racial profiling.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/12/new-york-stop-and-frisk-unconstitutional-judge


Are you saying that this will not happen with the New Haven police doing this here?

It's not based on race. It's based on behavior and it happens already on a daily basis.

posted by: alphabravocharlie on January 20, 2017 3:30pm

It's not based on race. It's based on behavior and it happens already on a daily basis.

If not based on race then why did the judge say stops violated individuals' right to privacy and equal treatment under the law. In addition, the city's highest officials had "turned a blind eye" to evidence that officers carried out the searches in a "racially discriminatory manner", she added.In practice", she wrote in a 195-page ruling, "the policy encourages the targeting of young black and Hispanic men based on their prevalence in local crime complaints. This is a form of racial profiling.

You've missed the point. To be legal, stops have to be based on reasonable suspicion which is developed by observation of behavior. The judge's analysis was shallow. These are all individual transactions so race doesn't matter. As long as there is articulable suspicion that a crime was, is or is about to be committed, the stop is legal.

Let's be practical. If you wanted to stop gun violence, where would you put police officers?

@ alphabravocharlie. You've missed the point.Again read what the judge said. she added.In practice", she wrote in a 195-page ruling, "the policy encourages the targeting of young black and Hispanic men based on their prevalence in local crime complaints. This is a form of racial profiling.This was going on across the country.In fact in you had police officers who did this. Would you call this analysis was shallow.

NYPD Commanding Officer Caught On Tape Ordering Cops To Stop And Frisk Young "Male Blacks

McCormack insisted that Serrano and other officers needed to stop people who were causing "the most problems." Pressed further, McCormack is heard on tape saying, "The problem was, what, male blacks. And I told you at roll call, and I have no problem telling you this, male blacks 14 to 20, 21.According to attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Law, which is arguing the case on behalf of four people who say they were stopped and frisked because of their race, NYPD commanders routinely use the phrase "the right people" as code for blacks and Hispanics. 531,000 people were stopped as part of the program last year, more than five times the number when Bloomberg took office. Fifty-one percent of those stopped were black, 32 percent Hispanic and 11 percent white.

http://gothamist.com/2013/03/22/nypd_officer_caught_on_tape_orderin.php

You every heard of Homan Square in Chicago.

82.2% of people detained at Homan Square were black, compared with 32.9% of the Chicago population.
11.8% of detainees in the Homan Square logs were Hispanic, compared with 28.9% of the population.
5.5% of the detainees were white, compared with 31.7% of the population.
Of the 68 people who Chicago police claim had access to counsel at Homan Square, however, 45% were black, 26% were Hispanic and another 26% were white.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands

Part One.

Part two.

Did you know that even Black law enforcement officers are stop.

Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police

Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn's upmarket Prospect Park. "I had my ID on me so it didn't escalate," said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. "But what's suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?"The black officers interviewed said they had been racially profiled by white officers exclusively, and about one third said they made some form of complaint to a supervisor. All but one said their supervisors either dismissed the complaints or retaliated against them by denying them overtime, choice assignments, or promotions. The remaining officers who made no complaints said they refrained from doing so either because they feared retribution or because they saw racial profiling as part of the system.

Video shows 4 black officers held at gunpoint by police

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/03/black-parole-officers-police/26843733/

So give me a break.

Let's be practical. If you wanted to stop gun violence, where would you put police officers?

I would put the police where they are selling the Illegal guns to the people.

Mr/Ms. Alphabravocharlie,

Slavery was legal, too. Legal does not mean just, of course. It MERELY means that the political system has allowed it, and we all know that the political system, like the people who run it, is far from perfect.

As for the rest of this celebratory article, I find it strange that in a city this small, we are set to congratulate the actions of a few police officers, led by one, who advocate for a "quality of life" perspective, but such a focus is not applied to the entire city.

Did anyone ask where what will become of the other "aggressive panhandlers" who are run out of Wooster Square or who "aggressively" panhandle in other parts of the city? Or are we satisfied with the notion that behavior that affects "quality of life" for one section of the city is just fine in other section?

Does anyone smell classism here?

The Rev. Mr. Samuel T. Ross-Lee

@alphabravocharlie why is it when it comes to people of color who are stop by the police they are always told this.

SEE IT: Former NFL running back Ricky Williams frisked by police while taking a walk in Texas

Footage of former Heisman Trophy winner and prominent NFL running back Ricky Williams being stopped by police while taking a walk in his hotel parking lot was released Friday.

Williams, who was in Tyler, Texas to attend the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award ceremony, is seen in the beginning of the video being asked to stand in front of a cop car before getting searched for weapons.

The officer then explained that police received a call about a man who suspiciously was hopping fences and loitering in a nearby backyard.
After Williams denied that he hopped any fences, the office told the former running back "Here's the thing. I know more than what you think I know. I know that you were in the back of somebody's yard back there. Is there a reason you were in somebody's yard?"

The cop then told Williams, who promised the officers that he hadn't been in any backyards, that a construction worker they'd spoken to claimed the retired NFLer attempted to steal a tape measure that was in the parking lot.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/nfl-star-ricky-williams-frisked-police-texas-article-1.2952068

http://www.dailywire.com/news/9390/5-things-you-need-know-about-stop-and-frisk-aaron-bandler

posted by: alphabravocharlie on January 21, 2017 6:50pm

http://www.dailywire.com/news/9390/5-things-you-need-know-about-stop-and-frisk-aaron-bandler



Stop-and-Frisk Has Little Impact on Crime Rate, Bratton Says

Critics who want to go back to using the stop-and-frisk tactics of the previous adminstration to address the recent uptick in murders need to "get over it," NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday."Let's get over it," Bratton said during a press conference at NYPD headquarters Monday. "SQF (Stop, Question and Frisk) is not a significant factor in the crime rate of this city.

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150608/civic-center/stop-and-frisk-has-little-impact-on-crime-rate-bratton-says


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