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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMIAMI GARDENS POLICE RECORDS REVEAL BROAD POLICY OF STOPPING AND QUESTIONING CITIZENS
Earl Sampson, 28, says hes been stopped more than 200 times by the Miami Gardens Police Department.
8,489 KIDS, AND 1,775 SENIOR CITIZENS CAUGHT UP IN CITYS VERSION OF "STOP & FRISK
According to a review of 99,980 "field contact reports, they were stopped, written up and often identified as "suspicious -- but just like the 11-year-old boy -- the encounter was recorded in a public database, and they were let go.
Thousands more were arrested after being stopped by the police, raising the total number of people ensnared by the policy to 65,328 during the five-year period.
"I have never seen a police department that has taken the approach that every citizen in that city is a suspect. Ive described it as New York City stop-and-frisk on steroids. said Miami-Dade County Public Defender Carlos Martinez.
Thousands more were arrested after being stopped by the police, raising the total number of people ensnared by the policy to 65,328 during the five-year period.
"I have never seen a police department that has taken the approach that every citizen in that city is a suspect. Ive described it as New York City stop-and-frisk on steroids. said Miami-Dade County Public Defender Carlos Martinez.
Fusions analysis of more than 30,000 pages of field contact reports, shows how aggressive and far-reaching the police actions were. Some residents were stopped, questioned and written up multiple times within minutes of each other, by different officers. Children were stopped by police in playgrounds. Senior citizens were stopped and questioned near their retirement home, including a 99-year-old man deemed to be "suspicious. Officers even wrote a report identifying a five-year-old child as a "suspicious person.
Much More at the Link.
http://fusion.net/justice/story/miami-gardens-stop-frisk-nabs-thousands-kids-finds-667430
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MIAMI GARDENS POLICE RECORDS REVEAL BROAD POLICY OF STOPPING AND QUESTIONING CITIZENS (Original Post)
sheshe2
Jun 2014
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msongs
(67,435 posts)1. sounds like there is not enough real crime to justify their jobs eh? nt
William769
(55,147 posts)2. I know the area well. Spent years in Miami.
They are wrong for doing it for the reasons they do it.
sheshe2
(83,860 posts)3. The numbers are staggering, William.
Racial profiling at it's worst.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)5. I lived in Miami Gardens for a while.
I never had any problems with the police. But that was many years ago, plus I was not a senior citizen, a child, nor black. I guess a lot has changed since then.
Uncle Joe
(58,405 posts)4. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, sheshe.
Cha
(297,528 posts)6. Damn that's a lot of stopping and frisking for a group of people, she!
Thank you for your OP exposing this. It looks like the Police in that area need to stop being So paranoid and get some common sense.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)8. I'd violate Godwin's law if I said what I thought of Miami Gardens police nt
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)9. That's the place the convenience store clerk kept getting arrested
Once it was for taking out the store's trash. Cops claimed it was suspicious.
sheshe2
(83,860 posts)10. Earl Sampson
"I see how officers walk in and take everybody, Alex told Fusion. "I see there was abuse.
Alex says he was so appalled that he installed video surveillance cameras in his store -- not to record crime but to record police misconduct.
In January 2012, Alex says he gave his employee, Earl Sampson, a place to live inside the store to protect him from the police. But even that was no deterrent. In this security video, police are seen storming into Earls bedroom in the back of the store. Then Alex Saleh is seen stepping in, demanding police leave Earl alone. Moments later, the police can be seen turning around and leaving the store.
Alex says he was so appalled that he installed video surveillance cameras in his store -- not to record crime but to record police misconduct.
In January 2012, Alex says he gave his employee, Earl Sampson, a place to live inside the store to protect him from the police. But even that was no deterrent. In this security video, police are seen storming into Earls bedroom in the back of the store. Then Alex Saleh is seen stepping in, demanding police leave Earl alone. Moments later, the police can be seen turning around and leaving the store.
http://fusion.net/justice/story/miami-gardens-stop-frisk-nabs-thousands-kids-finds-667430