Monday, November 4, 2013

Racial profiling lives on

In the article I read today I heard that some citizen's in New york are having their fourth amendment right violated. The fourth amendment is "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." and in New York these searches are being conducted without the support of a warrant. This basically means that the police are searching through other people's belongings without legal permission, and their getting away with it. Police officers are supposed to be enforcers of the law, but that does not mean that they are not subject to it themselves. Though i do not mean to be critical of the New York as a whole, i do believe that those who are violating the rights of the people they are supposed to be protecting should be further educated on the laws that they are both following and enforcing.

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