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NYPD Upset They May Have to Abide by U.S. Constitution

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Members of the New York Police Department are rejecting a new proposal which would require them to inform citizens of their rights to refuse searches prior to unwarranted searches being conducted.

The bill, introduced today, forces police to obtain consent from citizens before they search them, a rule which was already pretty much established by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…”

“The bill covers cases when police don’t have a warrant, are not making an arrest, or don’t have probable cause,” reports CBS New York.

Under the proposed bill, police would also be forced to obtain proof of a suspect’s consent, either in writing or with a recording of their verbal agreement.

A police union representative calls the new bill, which aims to keep citizens’ rights intact, a score for the criminals.

“This is one more time that the City Council is trying to protect criminals rather than New York City police officers,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told CBS New York.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is also apparently still on the fence about whether or not protecting his fellow citizen’s rights is a good thing.

“We obviously have to protect the rights of our people, but we also have to make sure we are not undermining in any way for law enforcement to do its job,” de Blasio stated.

Evidently, police had grown accustomed to the lawless stop-and-frisk policies of the Mayor Michael Bloomberg era, which granted police broad search powers and which civil liberties organizations argued unfairly targeted minorities.

Last year, a New York judge ruled provisions of the “stop-and-frisk” law to be unconstitutional. That decision was echoed a few months later by a 2nd US circuit court of appeals which also found that searches were being carried out in a discriminatory, unconstitutional manner.

“Good idea,” an informed New York resident said of the new proposal, “because it protects our right to privacy by the First, Fourth and 14th Amendment.”

Other residents felt cops being required to uphold Fourth Amendment protections might hinder police work.

“If they ask, the answer is certainly gonna be, ‘No.’ So I don’t know what the point is,” a New Jersey resident stated.

Ironically the same officers who have no problem prodding into the affairs of innocent passersby fear their own privacy being violated.

In a recent poll conducted by pro-cop website PoliceOne.com, for example, police respondents said their biggest concern with body cameras was “A lack of privacy for the officers wearing them,” illustrating how police lift their own interests above the public’s.

The right of citizens to go about their business without the fear of being accosted by authority figures is one of the reasons the Founding Fathers included privacy protections in the Bill of Rights, whose Fourth Amendment states in full:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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    • mfritz0

      Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told CBS New York, “The City Council is trying to protect criminals rather than New York City police officers”. This guy is a moron, his values of judgement are completely skewed. Doesn’t he realize that this is to protect the citizen as well as the police? If he doesn’t realize this he should not be elected into his place of authority again.

    • abnegative

      To violate or not fully support the constitution and or the rights of the people it represents is in itself supporting the lawless part of society . This approach distances law enforcement from the very ones they need the support of , those who live by rule of law.

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