NYPD Clean Halls Operation: Article Link

[dean.engelhardt]

Just saw this article about the NYPD Clean Hall Operation. It appears that apartment building landlords give permission for the police to stop and frisk anyone in the hallways of the building. If you can't prove you are there legally, it is off to jail with you. Has anyone here have this happen to them?

In another incident, police stopped three friends of a Bronx resident named Alex Lebron as they were leaving his apartment. Lebron’s mother saw the teenagers being interviewed in the stairwell, approached the police and told them she knew them and everything was okay. She then went to her apartment and told her son that the cops were talking to his friends. Lebron, according to the suit, then races downstairs "to prevent their arrest." Here’s the rest of the story, according to the complaint:

Mr. Lebron encountered his handcuffed friends and the two police officers in the lobby of his building. He told the officers that he lived in the building and that the teens had been visiting him. The officers responded that it was "too late" and placed the three young men in a police van…. The arresting officers took W.B., J.G., and their friend to the 44th Precinct, where they were locked in a cell. After approximately two hours, they were given summonses for trespassing and released. The trespassing charges against W.B., J.G., and their friend were later dismissed.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...#ixzz1rGgCLvIc

Is this still America?

[Pericles]

Papieren bitte!

[tod evans]

No more federally funded housing.

That'd put an end to this BS.

[TexanRudeBoy]

No more federally funded housing.

That'd put an end to this BS.

"In effect since 1991, it allows police to execute so-called "vertical patrols" by going up into private buildings and conducting stop-and-frisk searches in hallways – with the landlord’s permission."

It was like the third paragraph. Is ignorance and lack of minimal effort a requirement to type on the internets these days?