The New York City Police are all of a sudden bragging about low crime numbers, while crediting their rights destroying policy of “stop, question, and frisk” for that improvement. I do still have ocean front property in Montana for sale for any who believe that these numbers are accurate, or that this kind of behavior is justifiable.
What was not discussed was the absolute destruction of any rule of proper law due to this illegal policy. The New York police claim the “right” to stop anyone they choose to, question and frisk them, and without any cause whatsoever. In addition, they face no repercussion for their aggressive and invasive actions.
From the CNN story:
“The continuing murder decline in New York is vindication of the NYPD’s policy of engagement, which includes Operation Impact, police stop and questioning and use of the Real Time Crime Center to get timely information into detectives’ hands as quickly as possible,” New York police said in their statement Sunday.
The above statement by the New York Police Department could have simply said that the ends justifies the means. Even then, one would have to believe that the numbers sited by the police were accurate. The chances of that are slim to none. They have to justify this anti-liberty behavior by claiming how much good they’re doing to protect the lowly citizens. My belief is that any scrutiny of their numbers would expose their lies, but even if the numbers are correct, the policy is an abomination against freedom.
Once again, those in New York are giving up freedom for a so-called higher degree of safety. In this case they are not being asked to do so, but forced to do so at the point of a gun. When the state uses aggressive measures to threaten and physically harm the citizens in order to supposedly protect them, while at the same time destroying their freedoms, what have the citizens become other than slaves?
Any continuation or spread of these heinous policies will only serve to create a dictatorial state; a state bent on total control of all. In that state, no liberty can exist, and only serfdom will survive!